Kozinsky: Enduring Ventures evaluated a Midwestern scaffolding firm at 4x EBITDA
Sieva Kozinsky · Building a Mini Berkshire Hathaway · Sep 1, 2022 · at 1:01:43
Sieva Kozinsky, co-founder of holding company Enduring Ventures, discusses deal flow metrics for cash-flowing blue-collar asset rental businesses.
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“And the one we looked at in, in in the Midwest was doing about Four million of EBITDA. We could have bought it at, what was it Xavier? Maybe four times EBITDA at the time?”
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