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S2E10: How To Become a Great Business Owner with Dave Caputo
Episode 10 • 11th June 2024 • Building Builders • Kevin Forestell
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Dave Caputo is an entrepreneur and the former CEO and co-founder of technology company Sandvine, which navigated a CDN $562-million exit in 2017. Now, Dave has shifted his focus to creating Trusscore after a lifelong dislike for painted drywall. Trusscore is committed to disrupting the building materials industry by bringing to market a better-performing, more sustainable solution.

In this episode, Kevin and Dave discuss many topics and themes including:

  • (2:00) What makes a good entrepreneur
  • (9:00) How to engineer and make a good company culture
  • (16:00) Tips for selling your services to residential customers
  • (22:00) Knowing when the time is right to sell your company and how to do it

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The Building Builders podcast is created and published by DOZR, a rental marketplace for construction equipment. With DOZR, you can find hundreds of heavy equipment rental companies near you in just one click. Join thousands of contractors looking for rental equipment across North America today. Call us at 1-844-218-3697 or visit DOZR.com


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Dave's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davecaputo

Trusscore: https://trusscore.com/


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