Gavin Lantzy has been an entrepreneur since college when he started his own house painting company to support himself while he earned a degree.
The company was doing well, and Lantzy launched a quasi-franchise business model in which he copied the training systems’ support structure, taught classmates how to run their own house painting business, and guided them on how to market, hire painters, and run small territories of the company.
“It was wildly successful all through college and 10 years thereafter,” Lantzy says.
In doing so, he learned the ins and outs of business operations and running a successful franchise model.
“All throughout that journey was learning what a franchise was, what the business models entailed, how…