Tuesday Apr 21, 2026

From Private Equity to Restoration: Buying, Building & Breaking Things | Lazy Leverage #105

Jon sits down with Sachin Bettadapur, a former private equity investor who walked away from the promotion track at a $2B fund to buy two restoration franchise locations with an SBA loan. They get into what it actually feels like to go from the deal team to the operator's seat — the resource constraints nobody warns you about, how to use global talent and AI to specialize labor at subscale, and why theory of constraints should come before EOS or any goal-setting system. Plus, why the franchise model actually makes sense when it attacks your real constraint: lead flow.

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