Andrew GazdeckiSerial Entrepreneur Driving Startup Acquisitions

Building Two Businesses At Once Comes At A Cost

23 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, the guest (Speaker A) reflects on six years of running an SEO agency, describing the difficulty of trying to build a second business at the same time. They explain that alternating focus caused growth and acquisition efforts to stall for each venture, leading to overall decline. Recognizing this, they decided to fully hand over the SEO agency to a capable successor, ensuring its continued care while freeing themselves to concentrate on new projects. Andrew Gazdecki affirms the point, noting that splitting attention between two businesses typically harms both.

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What I realized is like I've been running the SEO agency for a couple of years and I felt the itch to build something new. For some time I actually tried to build two businesses at once. What I realized is one of them ultimately ends up suffering because like I would pause like acquisition and growth for one business and then work on another business. But then if you don't work on a business, it starts to dwindle down. Then I switched back and forth quite a bit. So then what I realized is it's better to just like fully pass it on. Like I want to make sure that it was in good hands. The SEO business I've been doing it for like 6 years. It's like my baby. So I want to make sure someone takes take care of the business and has the desire to grow it. And then that allows me to then fully focus on new businesses and projects that I want to work on.
Great reason to sell is if you have one business, you want to start another one, or you have two businesses, because you're right, like one business will suffer while you focus on the other one, which ultimately makes both businesses suffer.