What's up everybody welcome back to another episode of founders journal

This is your host Alex Lieberman co founder and executive chairman of morning brew. I have another very special guest episode today

My good friend Cody Sanchez the founder of contrarian thinking a prolific content creator and I think the first person to really popularize boring businesses like

Laundromat businesses and car wash businesses and ATM businesses before they became sexy over the last 12 to 18 months on this episode of the show

Cody shares lessons that she learned during the final days of working in corporate America

And I'm so excited for this episode because I met Cody a few years ago

I believe at a conference and she's one of my I'll call internet friends this kind of

Group of trusted advisors and mentors who I've only met in life a few times

But I talked to constantly over the internet because Cody has so much learned experience and wisdom and I try as much as possible just to

Learn from her today. She has built multiple multi-million dollar companies

She's gathered over a million followers on social she has an amazing newsletter

Which you can sign up for on her website Cody Sanchez.com and she has so much knowledge that I knew I had to have her as a guest on the show

I know you're gonna love this episode and by the way, it was just her birthday

So if you want a reason to reach out to Cody hit her up on Instagram or over her newsletter or on Twitter

And just say that Alex sent new and wish her a happy birthday. So here is Cody Sanchez for a guest founders journal episode

Hi, I'm Cody Sanchez and I own a lot of boring businesses and that might sound weird you guys

But basically what it means is that I buy small businesses that you all use landscaping companies roofing companies cleaning companies

Everyday businesses, but you probably don't think much about the fact that you spend money on them every month

Now the big boys call this private equity and if you also didn't know

Most of the richest people in the world are there through acquisitions some version of buying and selling small companies or private equity deals

And I started doing this about 15 years ago today

I run a company called Contrarian Thinking about a hundred million views a month million subscribers

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