35. How Persistence, Intuition and Relentlessness Propelled a $10 Million Business

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">On this episode, we welcome Ricardo Regalado, the Founder and CEO of Rozalado Commercial Cleaning Services, plus 3 other companies including his latest venture Route, an end to end software platform for service providers.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Ricardo shares his personal journey from buying his uncle’s franchise commercial cleaning business where he and his wife were working 18 hours a day to a soon to be $10 million company that was featured on Inc. 500’s fastest growing companies, which is a rare feat for a cleaning services business. </span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><strong>Key #LessonsInGrowth:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li class="p3"><span class="s1">How scaling to $1 Million was different than from $2M to $4M and from $4M to $7M.</span></li> <li class="p3">How he successfully balanced family and business (he has 17 family members working in the company).</li> <li class="p3">How he was able to scale from 5 employees to over 300 and keep the culture.</li> <li class="p3">How intuition, persistence and relentlessness were the key drivers of success</li> <li class="p3">Plus numerous other words of wisdom for entrepreneurs</li> </ul>