Boring Money
Boring Money is for the people quietly getting rich the unglamorous way. Hosted by David Heacock, founder and CEO of Filterbuy, this podcast covers boring businesses, acquisitions, cash flow, EBITDA, tax strategy, fixed income, and the real mechanics of compounding capital. Built for operators, investors, and business owners who care more about long-term wealth than hype, headlines, or status.
Episodes
23 episodes
This Veteran's Boring Business Makes $11,000/Day
Ian Dahlberg got out of the Coast Guard and was trying to figure out what he was doing next. He picked up a security guard license on a whim while going to college on the GI Bill, and it got him hired at the Waldorf Astoria in 2012 as a securit...
He Makes $185K/Year as an Electrician. I Told Him He Can Do $1M Next Year.
Ron Butler spent eight years at one residential electrical company and didn't want to leave. He asked them to match a $100K offer he'd gotten elsewhere. They couldn't. He pitched them on starting a service department instead, four guys, he'd ou...
He Got Fired Twice and Slept in His Car. Now He Does $450K Cleaning Floors.
Justin Campbell got fired from a management job at TGI Fridays, moved back home into the room down the hall from his grandmother, and started taking $50-a-day temp shifts. The job site was far enough that he slept in his car outside it rather t...
He Bought a Couple 3D Printers for Fun. Now He Has 105.
JT McCord spent eight years as a software engineer outside Columbus, Ohio, making $150K a year and stashing 30% of it. COVID sent him fully remote, and he bought a couple of 3D printers for the basement with no intention of selling anything. Th...
He's 22 and Took the Family Business to $1M a Year. He Pays Himself $400 a Week.
Matt McCrink is 22. A year ago he graduated from Auburn and walked into his dad's business — a third-generation operation brokering custom plastic and rubber components for manufacturers. For two decades it had been doing about $50K a year in p...
He Owns 36 Auto Repair Shops Doing $50M a Year. He’s Never Fixed a Car.
Brian Beers has never fixed a car.He owns 36 Midas locations across Philadelphia, New Jersey and Allentown doing more than $50 million a year—with a CEO running the day-to-day, mechanics earning $5,000 in a week, and a business that runs...
He Built an $11M Business in 5 Months. I Told Him to Stop Growing So Fast.
Gustavs has built one of the fastest-growing businesses I’ve seen.In the first five and a half months of the year, his greenhouse company generated $11 million in revenue. He believes it can reach $50 million—and possibly even $100 milli...
He Makes $10M/Year in a Business Everyone Ignores
Daniel Morris started with no money, a borrowed £10,000, and a cleaning business that charged roughly £12 an hour.Today, CanDo Laundry Services generates more than $10 million a year, operates three factories, processes over half a milli...
He Built an $8M Manufacturing Business… But His Real Dream Is Something Much Bigger
Every entrepreneur eventually reaches a crossroads.Do you keep scaling the business you’ve already built, or do you use it as the foundation for something even bigger?In this episode of Boring Money, I sit down with Christi...
How He Built a $5M Government-Backed Business in Just 3 Years (No Healthcare Degree Required)
What if one of the best business opportunities wasn’t selling to consumers at all—but providing essential services that the government is already paying for?In this episode of Boring Money, I sit down with Jake, founder of A Guidi...
He Lost $500K Trying to Be a Mogul — Then Built an $850K Lawn Care Business
Ryan thought he had made it.He had a great medical sales job, lived in South Florida, and had built up real cash after a few successful real estate deals. But during COVID, he realized something uncomfortable: relying on one job, even a ...
Building Millions in Cash Flow, Hiring Better Talent, and Going All In with Connor Gross
Connor Gross has built and operated across multiple income streams: an early e-commerce exit, self-storage and real estate deals, an apparel e-commerce business, content sites, and now Constant Hire, a recruiting agency focused on helping e-com...
The $10M Hat Business Built on Custom Software
Robert built Hat Launch from one embroidery machine in his garage into a $10 million custom hat business serving small businesses, blue-collar teams, and even pockets inside companies like SpaceX, Google, Amazon, Red Bull, and Bacardi.In...
How a 28-Year-Old Built a $1M Apparel Manufacturing Business in 12 Months
Most people have no idea how licensed apparel actually gets made.In this episode of Boring Money, I sit down with Zarum, co-founder of Forge & Fabric, a Canadian apparel manufacturer that produced over 650,000 garments and crossed $1...
From Bankruptcy to $2.4M: Building a Cleaning Business From Scratch
John Torres went from professional baseball dreams, two layoffs in nine months, failed real estate deals, food stamps, and bankruptcy… to building Club Clean into a $2.4 million commercial cleaning business producing roughly $600,000 a year in ...
I Roasted His Car Wash Startup — Then Gave Him a $4M Plan
Paulo is trying to bring Flipwash, a successful Brazilian car wash concept, to the United States.In Brazil, the company has grown to more than 140 locations and roughly $4 million per month in revenue. The model is simple: instead of ma...
Tom Sosnoff on Risk, Trading, and Building Billion-Dollar Companies
Tom Sosnoff is the co-founder of thinkorswim and tastytrade, two of the most influential trading platforms in modern finance.Before building billion-dollar companies, Tom spent nearly 20 years as an options market maker in the pits of t...
The $14M Pool Fence Business Replacing SaaS With AI
Eric Leppin took over Lifesaver Pool Fence at 21 and grew it from under $1M to over $14M a year. In this episode, we talk about franchising, dealer economics, building a custom CRM with AI, and why the old “best practices” for running a busines...
How a Doctor Built an 8-Figure Healthcare Logistics Business With No Investors
Amit was a frontline physician working 80-hour weeks during COVID when he realized something most healthcare systems still hadn’t figured out:Getting medication to patients is a logistics problem.What started as a simple medicatio...
He Inherited a 79-Year-Old Business… and Lost 70% of It
Clark Dane inherited a 79-year-old American manufacturing company and immediately watched it lose 70% of its revenue.Most people would have folded.Instead, Clark kept the business alive, rebuilt the customer base, and shifted from...
I Spent $200K on His Playbook. You're Getting It for $0
Eric Villa helped grow some of the biggest YouTube channels in the world — including MKBHD’s behind-the-scenes channel, The Studio — and then helped take my channel from struggling for views to millions of views in a matter of weeks....
How He Built a $8M BORING Business I’d Never Heard Of
David Heacock sits down with David Wu, founder of Joy Displays, to unpack how he went from $20,000 in savings to building an $8 million profitable business with just nine employees.This is a conversation about far more than the money. It...
From $2K to $50M in 5 Years: The Exact Playbook
In the first episode of Boring Money, David Heacock sits down with John, co-founder of Ship Dudes, to break down how he and his partner turned just $2,000 into a business doing roughly $50 million in revenue in five years.They talk throu...