Mike Andes explores whether opening a second location is real growth or just chasing the next shiny thing. The conversation weighs motivations like creating leadership roles and scaling operations against the reality that most founders skip the hard work of refining operations before jumping to the next venture.
Having a second location. Like, how would that scratch the itch of wanting to do other entrepreneurial things other than just saying, we have two locations? Because you'd be doing the exact same thing there. It is like a new adventure, you know, like a new location, new general manager kind of. You get your call center, like, together and all that. I just love growing. I love seeing other people become rich as well. Seeing, like, a young guy, ambitious, becomes a general manager or whatever it might be, and they become, like, a millionaire. Like, I love seeing that. I love seeing continuous growth.
You know, in the first few years of growing a business, you're usually not super profitable. It's actually, once things get, you know, pretty boring and you're running operations and refining the processes, you actually make all of the profit. But a lot of people never get to the profitable stage of their business because they're constantly having the shiny object syndrome, going from one thing to the next, and they never actually make a business that makes money.
