🎙️How He Went From English Teacher To 40 Business Acquisitions

Hello SMB Deal Hunters!

Twelve years ago, Dom Wells was making $2,000 a month teaching English in Taiwan.

No corporate background.

No investors.

No SBA loan. (He’s not even American)

Today he runs a NASDAQ-listed holding company with 40+ acquisitions and a $12 million revenue run rate.

And he built the whole thing by buying the types of businesses most people scroll right past.

His first deal? $40K, seller-financed at $10K a month for four months.

He wasn't even making enough to feel comfortable going full-time yet.

But what he did to go from scraping together $30-80K cash deals to structuring acquisitions with as little as 25% down is what makes this episode worth your time.

Here are some of the highlights from the deep dive:

🔥 The business model everyone in the acquisition world hates that consistently outperforms everything else in his portfolio (he now owns 7 of them)

🔥 How he bought a founder-dependent business, watched it tank, then grew it past its all-time revenue peak with a playbook the original team never considered

🔥 The deal structure that lets him acquire companies with as little as 25% cash upfront, and the one decision from 2022 that made it possible

🔥 Why he's super bearish on the exact business model that earned him his first dollar online, and the single question he now asks before buying anything

Here's his must-watch breakdown...

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For those who missed it, we also did an SMB Deal Hunter Pro alumni interview breaking down Cory's acquisition of a $1.85M childcare center in York, PA.

He spends 1-2 hours a week on it and he used the cash flow from the business to buy a 10-acre wedding venue.

Cory spent 13 years managing restaurants. Zero childcare experience. He knew he wanted out but spent two years spinning his wheels before joining Pro.

10 months later, he closed. And he found the deal because of one tactic our team taught him.

But here's the part you need to hear: when Cory found this business, he thought it was locked up. His partner had literally worked there before. The owner was grooming them to take over.

Then she accepted another buyer's offer.

How our team helped him get it back is one of the best parts of this interview.

If you want to watch the full alumni interview, click below:

And when we asked what he valued most about the program:

So, if you want me and my team to work with you to find, finance, and acquire a million-dollar cash-flowing business in the next 6-12 months, you might be interested in the Pro program.

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