Disruptive Successor Podcast

Episode 82 - How Bobby Marchenese Turned His Family-Owned Car Wash Into A Multi-Location Operation

Episode Summary

From a simple carwash that he bought from his father with his college savings and money from selling his car, Bobby Marchenese has turned this family business into a 6-site 70-employee operation. Bobby’s original plan was simple, go to wall street and get busy with finance, but something held him back, and what is it? Find out more about it by tuning in to Bobby and Jonathan Goldhill in this latest episode of The Disruptive Successor podcast. HIGHLIGHTS Bobby's business backstory Hold back to give the business a shot Buying a carwash location from his dad Turning things around The scary but pretty good start The growing pains and lessons learned QUOTES Bobby: “it just didn't seem like that was the right path. For me, there was just something kind of holding me back from that. You need to be an entrepreneur, you need to give the business a shot.” Bobby: “I just had this gut feeling that I could make it work and I can turn things around. Bobby: “Micromanaging people, it's not necessarily a good thing to do. Bobby: “Take that step back, look into your business, work on a vision, to be able to create that vision, to know where you want to go in the next five years. As opposed to just constantly just fighting the day-to-day and you get six months down the road, and you're really in the same spot.” If you enjoyed today’s episode, please subscribe, review and share with a friend who would benefit from the message. If you’re interested in picking up a copy of Jonathan Goldhill’s book, Disruptive Successor, go to the website at www.DisruptiveSuccessor.com

Episode Notes

From a simple carwash that he bought from his father with his college savings and money from selling his car, Bobby Marchenese has turned this family business into a 6-site 70-employee operation. Bobby’s original plan was simple, go to wall street and get busy with finance, but something held him back, and what is it? Find out more about it by tuning in to Bobby and Jonathan Goldhill in this latest episode of The Disruptive Successor podcast.

HIGHLIGHTS

QUOTES

Bobby: “it just didn't seem like that was the right path. For me, there was just something kind of holding me back from that. You need to be an entrepreneur, you need to give the business a shot.”

Bobby: “I just had this gut feeling that I could make it work and I can turn things around.

Bobby: “Micromanaging people, it's not necessarily a good thing to do.

Bobby: “Take that step back, look into your business, work on a vision, to be able to create that vision, to know where you want to go in the next five years. As opposed to just constantly just fighting the day-to-day and you get six months down the road, and you're really in the same spot.”

If you enjoyed today’s episode, please subscribe, review and share with a friend who would benefit from the message. If you’re interested in picking up a copy of Jonathan Goldhill’s book, Disruptive Successor, go to the website at  www.DisruptiveSuccessor.com