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

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.

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. 

Key #LessonsInGrowth:

• How scaling to $1 Million was different than from $2M to $4M and from $4M to $7M.
• How he successfully balanced family and business (he has 17 family members working in the company).
• How he was able to scale from 5 employees to over 300 and keep the culture.
• How intuition, persistence and relentlessness were the key drivers of success
• Plus numerous other words of wisdom for entrepreneurs