Shaan Puri: Hamlin School generates $31M revenue and $11M profit in SF
Shaan Puri · Business Brainstorm: Failed Churches, Ozempic Hotline & Klout 2.0 (#492) · Sep 5, 2023 · at 25:30
Shaan Puri analyzes the non-profit financial filings of prestigious private schools in San Francisco while discussing business ideas.
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“In San Francisco, I discovered a business that does thirty one million dollars in revenue locally here in San Francisco? No, no, no revenue outside of San Francisco. On the thirty one million in revenue, it does about eleven million in profit... And it has a hundred million dollars of assets on the balance sheet... It is a private elementary school. So. There are private elementary schools in San Francisco. So, so one, I looked at a bunch of them. The one I think that does the best or the one that I found that does the best is one called the Hamlin School.”
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