How to Scale Beyond Yourself and Build a Real Company

In this episode, John Wilson and co-host Jack Carr unpack one of the biggest transitions in home service — going from owner to operator. What does it really take to scale beyond yourself? We dive deep into building layers of leadership, knowing when to delegate, hiring vs. promoting internally, and what the first real leadership hire should look like.
From service managers and field supers to accountability systems and EOS, this one’s for owners ready to break through bottlenecks and build real organizational depth.

You’ll hear real playbooks from $1M to $40M+ companies—how John and Jack each handled growth bottlenecks, where they stumbled, and what they’d do differently.

What You’ll Learn

Bottlenecks by Design: How to identify when you’ve outgrown your org chart.
 First Leaders: The real tipping point for adding service managers, CSRs, and field supers.
 Hiring vs. Promoting: When internal leadership makes sense—and when it doesn’t.
 Accountability That Sticks: How to keep KPIs and culture aligned as you scale.
 Delegation Done Right: The tasks owners should’ve offloaded yesterday.
 Revenue-Focused Management: Why your first manager should drive numbers, not just tech skill.

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Jack Carr 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction and Catching Up
• 1:25 From Owner to Operator: Scaling Beyond Yourself
• 4:10 The First Steps in Offloading Duties
• 15:23 Hiring vs. Promoting Internally
• 19:38 Accountability and Leadership Challenges
• 25:38 Delegation and Scaling Strategies

Transcript

 Welcome back to Owned and Operated. I'm your host, John Wilson. I'm here with my co-host, Jack Carr. Welcome back to the show. 

Welcome back. I'm back on owned and operated. I'm pumped. I'm excited. It's been a day. 

You're like a, you're like a guest now. You're like, you're so infrequent. You're just 

guest, honestly.

Someone re ref or No, it was, um, I asked, I asked Grok to. Um, again, I know this is off topic, but real fast, I asked Rock to Roast owned and operated and it said the co-host Jack, and I was like, yes, I'm still a co-host on owned and operated. Let's go. Let's go. Has a laugh like a broken blender. That's not bad.

That's not bad. The last time it's like I'm super self-conscious about my laugh on the show. 

Yeah, we had, uh, Brandon roasted me once with chat, GBT, and it was, um, um, I'm gonna, I'm gonna mess this up, but it was something like John Wilson comma Nepo baby, uh, like bought his family's company or something like that.

And then. Spent the next decade reminding you of it. It, it was like, it was, it was pretty brutal. Yeah. It was good though. It was good. I, he like printed it and hung it on my wall. That's funny. 

Yeah. So now I'm super self-conscious of my laugh. Uh, thank you. Chat, GPT Love you Orrock. Specifically not chat. GT Rock.

Yeah. 

Yeah. More. But what, 

what is the topic today, John? 

Today, uh, today we're doing a little bit of a topic on from owner to operator, scaling beyond yourself. I think there's some layers here, which are kind of fun. Mm-hmm. Um, 

I 

think that most of it's gonna be like, how have you, like you're at a bottleneck as an owner, and that's why I think there's layers, like there's, we talk about, we've talked about this topic a lot, but mm-hmm.

Uh, like, hey, you're at this current bottleneck, like, I'm in a bottleneck right now. Um, and how, you know, how do you get past it? How do you think about it? Who do you engage? 

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's what I, I think the big question for a lot of people, like getting out of the first spot is one of the hardest because unless you bought your business like me, a lot of people.

They graduate their business. Right. They, they become a really good service tech. Mm-hmm. And then they move into, Hey, I want to be an owner. But ownership, I think that's 

trickier 

to be honest. It's a lot different. It's a lot different. Yeah. 

I think, I think that's trickier when like your, 'cause there's more to overcome.

Mm-hmm. 

Um, I remember a, a decade ago, so this is back to chat, GBT, so I mean, maybe it's right. Remind me. Remind me. But I re I remember a decade ago and uh, like I was a plumber. From 18 to 24, 25, and I, I stepped into the, like I bought the business and I did. Yeah. So chat, GP T's, right? And, uh, yeah, it's good.

Once you hear it, you can't unhear it. Um, so I, I bought the business, but I, I remember so distinctly at the time. My goal was to have the business be saleable by the age I, by the time I was 30, so I was 25, and I said, okay, in five years, I don't know that I want to sell the business. I just want to be able to sell the business.

Uh, so like, make it valuable. And, um, we did that, which was awesome. And the, the mindset that I had going into that was I always wanted to never be useful to the business because if the business was gonna be saleable. I had to be useless. 'cause if you know, at this, at that size, the owner had to be sort of like irrelevant.

Yeah. So. That's the framework I took for like the first five years of my career, and I think it helped quite a bit. 

Yeah, I mean, ironically I say I talk about how buying I bought the business and that made me out, you know, not do this, but realistically I bought so small and then everybody quit. So like really?

Yeah. You were a tech, you know, I, I did go tech, but I think like the place to start on this is what is the first step? Like what size? And then, uh, do you think, and then I'll go with what size we actually did, like, what, what size is the first step to offloading a significant portion of your. Operator duties, 

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Field Pulse. A field service management software for those who need more? I'll, yeah, I'll say the first size. I also think like it's number of direct reports almost always. So I think you're at a bottleneck when you hit max number of direct reports, and maybe that's like 10, but if you're at 10 direct reports, like you gotta figure something out.

Um, and that it could be 10 direct reports as like a two or $3 million organization where all the text report to you. Maybe a manager field, super dispatcher, call center, like that's 10 direct reports. Mm-hmm. Like you're at a bottleneck that's too many people, uh, and too much brain switching. Where, um, like later on you could maybe do that.

You could do 15 like just plumbers 'cause you're managing the same thing. But if you're brain switching from. Service to sales, to install, to booking the call, to dispatching properly. Like that's a lot. Um, so yeah, I, I think, uh, most people that I've talked to over the years, they feel it at like three technicians and one person in the office is when they feel the first big, like, oh, okay, I can't be in the truck anymore.

Like, there's enough going on administratively or like, I need to be a service manager, um, that I have to, you know, take a different role. 

That's interesting. Yeah. No, actually. Fully agree that, that we did a step earlier than that. We, I think we had two in one or two. Yeah. And a, uh, CSR, um, yeah. But that's, that's right around the time because right as you kind of graduate through, I think that the general progression usually becomes, or what we see in the acquisition side is it starts with technician to technicians and managing, you know?

Mm-hmm. Maybe a tech helper, et cetera. And then as you get two to three techs, you move into more of a sales role. Like a comfort advisor. Yeah. That's where we differed is like we, we hired a comfort advisor. 'cause I, at the time didn't understand sales the way I do today. Um. But the point is, is like, yeah, you can do sales and service manager.

It's really hard to do sales service manager and technician. And so like at that swap point is the first step where you have to put a layer in between you and the frontline. I mean, we've talked a bunch about like now going further all the way to like 10 million and 20 million and 40 million where you're at in the changes.

But on those, those first hires, like the first service hire. What, what are some of the keys that made it work so well for you? Um, early on. Like what, like service manager? Yeah. Because right at the time, A, it's a new position, so yeah. B, you probably don't know what it's like managing a manager. Mm-hmm. And c, there's zero systems in place.

There's no SOPs, there's probably no KPIs. You might not even have a good CRM. So like, for, for you personally, how did that work early on in making it function properly? 

Um, yeah, we kind of cheated too. So, uh, like I was the direct manager and then I bought a business that had managers and we made them the managers now, and we merged together.

So I think I learned a lot. I, I think what I thought was gonna be a good manager at the time, wasn. So we were really emphasizing like trade knowledge at that point. Yeah. Like, hey, we really need someone who knows the trade. And obviously you do, but you know, the trade is one of many parts of our day-to-day.

Like yes. What we do is like the actual mechanics of our work is really important, but so is marketing and so is sales and so is training. Later on, what we really started, uh, emphasizing was like, coach, are you a coach? Will you naturally just help people? Um, can you explain concepts simply without sounding demeaning?

Uh, so when we've started to identify that in talent, now we start flagging them for our leadership development program. Hey, this person, like people call him for help and. So people are comfortable. They, they look up to him or her, and then, uh, they coach. And it's not like, you know, sort of this diminishing, oh, you don't know how to do that.

It's a very like, yeah, let's like figure this out together. Um, so that way you can, you know, continue to grow. So that, that's what we've seen our best frontline leaders be. But I mean, I didn't know that a decade ago. Yeah. 

Do you, do you think though. That there is a time and a place where that technical knowledge is actually more important than coach.

So as you round out that fourth service technician, right? Yeah. Is it, are you looking for like for, for, to make this applicable for people out there who are rounding this corner? Like is it better to get somebody in place who's technically apt as well as understands the sales cycle and who can understand the revenue generation portion of a business and then worry about the coach later on?

Or do you feel that finding that coach is even more important than the technical and revenue generation side? 

I think it's a nuanced question. Yeah. Um, I, at different points of my life, I would've given different answers. I remember optimizing heavily for non-trade, so like not experienced, and I remember going the opposite and.

Optimizing for like only trade and that's almost the only thing I cared about. Oh, you've service led a plumbing company before? Mm-hmm. Like you're perfect. Yeah. I think where I've landed now is like someone in the organization needs to know what the hell you're doing and it, it doesn't need to be you as the owner.

It doesn't need to be, the service manager doesn't need to be a super, it just someone has to understand the mechanical. Of what you're doing, and maybe that's like a field super as a tech. Maybe that's a frontline leader. Maybe that's the install manager, but someone has to be the technical expert. It's just, it doesn't have to be the service manager.

That's fair. Yeah. My, my only worry and caveat to that is if you are the technical lead, uh, you're still gonna get the technical phone calls. So it is extremely difficult to be the technical lead mm-hmm. While also being the marketing and the QC person. Yeah. And the, this person. So it's just an extra hat to put on.

Um, and so that, that's what we optimize on. Yeah. What I've seen people do to be 

successful is they do field supers. So like their senior tech becomes a field super. Yeah. It's still a working in the field position. And then their service manager or sales manager or whatever is, uh, like they're only focused on service sales.

Like they're focused on, like, the measurement of a good service manager is average ticket and closing rate. Yeah. Like, that's it. It's not how many, it's not, there's no trade specific. We did a good job installing that toilet, it's average ticket and conversion rate kind of period. So now callbacks, it shows up for install or fulfillment, but that to us, that doesn't land inside sales management.

So, um, yeah, so have either a field super or, uh, like the way that we do it is our head of departments like our, our, uh, director level, um, team. Is non-trade specific. Mm-hmm. Like, hey, this person built a sales team to $300 million of revenue. Uh, this person can wrangle 50 installers every day. Yeah. But like has never touched a tool.

And, but then the frontline is Coach plus a little bit more trade specific. 

Do you then. And correct me if I'm wrong, are you saying then that at that point it's better to optimize that service manager role or that role, that first graduation role to be revenue generation? KPI specific, like that's that person's job.

Yeah. Is really first manager. If 

it's spectrum of one to 10. Yeah. Like one being like, I don't care about performance at all, but I'm the most technical expert thing ever. Two like. All I care about is sales and I couldn't, I don't know what a furnace is like, I think you'd probably want a six, maybe a seven.

Like you'd want someone that understands how to drive numbers, understands how to create coaching plans, um, because that's ultimately what's going to grow the business so that you can, you know, you just don't wanna get sued along the way. 'cause you did bad work. 

Yeah. Super interesting though. I mean, 'cause I think that, that, uh, I don't wanna say it, uh, ventures off on.

Traditional advice, but I do think that that's an interesting push is that you're the focus at the four technician Mark and the supervisor Mark is that Yeah, the technicians are actually generating, and I, I do, I do agree with you though, like I think that that is probably the right call because around that fourth technician, mark, right, you are at, give or take 2 million.

Maybe a little bit less. Mm-hmm. 1.5. Like it's a really hard area to gain brand recognition and to grow and to get your technicians to start. Mm-hmm. Actually driving revenue in the way they should. Yeah. It's the drive some revenue, 

like we, we have to grow the business. And what I see owners struggle with at that size is they have like technical experts.

That are great. Like you need tech technical experts. I'm not saying you don't, I just think like, pick which seat that they fill. Because if you have a, if you have a technical expert filling, um, like a service manager seat and he's like over here on the one scale, he couldn't give a shit about sales at all.

Your business is not gonna grow. Like, just period. Like they have to be geared towards growth of some type. 

Yeah. 'cause I mean, at that point you need the person. Who's managing those four technicians needs to start watching? Yeah. Hey, what are the questions that you're asking? Mm-hmm. What are your offerings?

What's your estimates look like? Are you selling these? Where's the training? So I, I actually agree with that. 'cause that's the graduation point where you're stop, you stop showing up and just installing the capacitor and you start actually doing full system valuations and, and working on what that looks like for your specific business.

Like how do we. Look at the system holistically and grow the company by offering a better offering to the customer. Mm-hmm. Interesting. Yeah. 

Now the, the most ideal candidate, if you can find them, is someone that is, has the technical capability as well as the coaching and sales mindset. 

Yeah. 

And that's usually who we place.

So, but it takes a lot of work to get there and we also train it. I was say, so one of my other, I That's 

nice, John. It's nice when you have like a $40 million company and you can attract that talent. Yeah. But I mean, like from a realistic standpoint, I find it very difficult. I mean, I was talking to Dustin Marks the other day on, on Jack acquisitions and like.

I was blown away that he found someone right out of the gate that hit, you know, he bought the business of a technical expert who was also willing to work on sales technique. But like that is such a rarity. Mm-hmm. I think in the industry is that people understand both sides of it and want that role.

Yeah. No, I agree. It's, uh, it's hard. When do you, how do you think about like hiring versus promoting internally? 

Well, if we're still talking about the step one, are we talking about kind of just in generalities? I think 

yeah, the same thing. The sort of like building leaders and, uh, you know, going from owner to operator.

I think a, a big part of that is delegation. 

I mean zero to four techs in HVAC, right? Not even across the entire company, but that was last year for us. So it's super fresh in our mind. Um, I'm more focused on some on training technicians to be technical and do our sales technique versus hiring them through into the next level, just 'cause we don't have.

The capacity, like that's such, it grows into be such a big business at some point. Um, that makes sense later on. But early on you're scrambling to get a tech in the door thinking about like. Hey, how do I train them to promote them? Like there's no promotion opportunities when you have three technicians.

Yeah. Um, and the, the most likely, again, this is a huge generality, which I'd love to be proven wrong on. When you have three technicians and you're doing $1 million a year in sales, it is really, really hard to get those technicians to be all stars. Amazing. 

Mm-hmm. Um, 

people. It takes a long time to find the right group.

It takes the long time to train the group. To move one of them into a service, I think would take equally as long to get them to stop focusing on, Hey, this is what I need to do, and move 'em into that. That being said, I think that we're at that step rounding five, like that's our next item is like leads and service managers as we hit six technicians.

Mm-hmm. Um, we are actively thinking about internal promotion and how to train that and what does that look like. So I, I think that's a step two game, not a step one. Like we talked about this before, like, out of organization is probably the better hire for this role. I could be wrong. I, that's my belief. I think 

it depends.

I think, um, I. Like, who's on the bench? Uh, and do you have a program, like if there's no program to turn people, which I know in your case there is not, so this isn't like mm-hmm. Uh, critique. It's more like do it if, if it's the, if there's a program to turn people into leaders, then. Internal makes a ton of sense.

Yeah. 

If there's not, then it's definitely more complicated. 

Also, like, if that's your skillset is building that program exp what is it? Expletive fucking run it. Like if you are really good trainer and you know how to build SOPs and programs Yeah. Like an All star do it. Like that's, that's an, that's a game changer for your business.

Mm-hmm. If you can install that early. Me, I'm an ops guy, like it's not day-to-day ops and optimization. HR training, things like that. Definitely not up my, my alley. My, uh, I'm still still working on my, my people side of the business. 

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Uh, how are you thinking about accountability as you add 

layers? 

That's a hard one. That again, I think that's one of those things that is really even today, is something that's nuanced for us.

Um, we've just implemented EOSI think we could've done it sooner. Like realistically E os. Like how, 

just how, how recently? 

Like within the last three months. And it's not even fully os like we don't have a facilitator or anything, but it's, hey, we are going to start doing L tens and we're gonna start mm-hmm.

Coming up with rocks and we're gonna start doing this. So like from an accountability standpoint, I feel like 

you're at the right 

time. 

Yeah. Like you could have done it sooner, but like, I think anytime you're writing like a process like that, like there's too soon and there's too late and. I think you're fine.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I just mean like, for my personal growth as a leader, like I expected a lot of things to happen without driving directions that were, um, that were clean and measurable and mm-hmm. Et cetera, et cetera. So, like, realistically at the end of the day, um. We're sitting in a spot where I think it's good now.

Um, but to drive accountability is like it is again, it's making sure that you're providing goals and 

yeah. 

Um, that are reachable and holding people accountable to those goals on the whole at every level. Um, whether that's you running a system or you're just doing it in Excel spreadsheets, so 

yeah.

That's a good question though. 'cause that's a hard one, especially. Um, 

it's tough. Well, it what, um, holding leaders, uh, accountable is like way more nuanced than texts. Yeah. One, because like leaders, you learn to trust them. You rely on them. There's like, it's, uh, there's, there's like a, for me anyways, like I work directly with our leaders every day.

I get to interface with our techs all the time, which is awesome. But. Like I primarily work with like six people, so yeah, there's just more going on there. And it's also a little bit more nuanced. Like, well, you don't, with a tech, with a, like a direct performer, it's like, Hey, your booking rate was bad. Yep.

Your number of phone pickups was exactly bad. Like it's a fairly black and white, like conversion rate was bad, average ticket was bad. It's just not that complicated with leaders. It it's, it is, it is more complicated. 

Yeah. It, no, you've hit the nail on the head and that was a very hard thing for me to overcome.

Yeah. Actually recently, um. Really recently, it's like even though the health of the business is good too. Yeah. Like it's not necessarily an indication of somebody doing well, even if that's that person's direct outcome. Yeah. Like once you get to a size where other people can actually facilitate the change and the drive necessary, um, it doesn't mean that the win is coming from the leader himself.

So it makes it even harder to come up with, um, kind of direct, general, measurable. Uh, KPIs. Like it's a, it's a hard thing. Yeah. Like what do you KPI leader on turnover rate of technicians. Like, is that the leader's fault or is that the owner's fault? Um, if mm-hmm. The pays not good. Right. There's, there's just like so much, it's so nuanced.

Um, but I think that the goal is to at least try, like there has to be something somewhere mm-hmm. That you're working towards That's understandable. And then the cool part is if you're doing that, then when you start running into these things where it's like, Hey, are you really driving change and. Wind in this business, you can change what your current system versus having to go, I don't know, let me make a system right now to figure it out.

Yeah. You just tweak, you tweak you, you pull in, in the, the words of an old jack, you turn the knob instead of pull the lever. Mm-hmm. Um, you can just dial it. 

Well, yeah, I mean, it, it's, it's, uh, yeah, it's complicated. So I think the biggest thing that we've taken away, there's a, there's a quote for this. I'm stealing this from somebody, but, uh, it's the man, not the land.

So I think it's from farming, right? So what we found is anytime something feels weird inside a department or like performance is bad or like techs are leaving, like it actually is pretty much always the manager. Yeah. Uh, and there's always, what makes it hard is there's always reasons. There's always like, oh, that guy was whatever.

Yeah. And this guy was whatever. But like, at the end of the day, the way I think about this is the, the leaders. Of our team, like are representative of me and are here to like, drive the business forward in a positive direction for all stakeholders, employees, customers, me. Yeah. And uh, sometimes people are bad at that and sometimes people are great at that and when they're bad at it, it can be tricky to tell.

But I think you just have to look at all of the things happening around that department. Like, hey, are, are a bunch of people leaving? Is performance down with no real explanation. Is there a plan to improve performance? Are you having to push, like does it feel, how hard does that department feel? And if it feels like hard, probably the wrong person.

Yeah, I mean the way that it makes it even harder though is there's plenty of instances where I. Technician turnover's high. But your recruiter, right, you have a full-time recruiter at your business. Mm-hmm. Who's doing a freaking fan tabular job and who's driving good technicians back into the business, but your turnover's still high.

And so the department's actually doing well, right? The, the, the. That business unit might be actually growing and succeeding and yeah, it feels hard. So that's maybe a good, uh, indicator, but like how is that measurable? And so that's what I always come back to is, is, yeah. You know, there's certain instances where we've ran into it a few times now where it's a situation like that where turnover's high, but the business is growing and doing well.

Is it growing as much as it probably should? No. But where is that, you know, where's that indicator? And I think that the hard part is like the indicators. Are all there. They just, you have to trust them versus the one final indicator, which is growth. Yes, growth is not the end all be all. From, yeah, straight from somebody going through it right now, guys.

So if you're smaller, it's very applicable. Mm-hmm. Um, 

uh, what, what's, 

uh, what's one thing that you wish you would've delegated earlier? Uh, I'll tell you actually right now I'm going through it, is I, we should already, and you might disagree with me, but we should already have somebody in marketing assisting with marketing.

Measures, not necessarily running marketing, but at least coordinating marketing measures earlier on than what we are doing right now. It's become a, you know, the, the intricacies and the busy work is much more difficult for me at this moment as somebody who owns marketing it, it's gotten to a point where it eats up the majority of my time and it's worth it.

Right. It's valuable. But I do think that there is an inefficiency. The second one, and we've talked about this a ton, recruiting, recruiting should have been done at 3 million. Bring someone in last year to make sure that this year, no matter what's the case, we have backups. That that's where I'm sitting.

Um, in terms of, and then the, uh, I'll give you another one too. The only other one that I wish we would've done is I wish I would've trusted myself in my marketing more and hired. More people, um mm-hmm. Technicians specifically to be Yeah. You're kinda 

short-staffed. 

Yeah. So I like, 

like compared to what you could be, uh, I remember you explaining your team and I was a little surprised.

Yeah. We have, I have had a, a poor history of like worrying about worrying rather than just saying, Hey. I'm gonna make it okay. Like if I have to go knock doors, I'll make it okay for that. Uh, forgetting like, Hey, an additional, mm-hmm. Headcount to fill is going to be right. Three calls a day, like I can find three calls a day.

Past what we have. 

Yeah. 

So like that, that's been, that's been something that I wish we would've done because we, I think our growth trajectory would be actually more than we are today. Um, but again, yeah, we're doing all right. I can't beat myself up. Marketing and recruiter is the answer. Um, if you mm-hmm.

Are, you know, circling three to five, it hurts, but it's definitely worth it. 

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When did you hire your marketing director, John, outta curiosity?

I know this is sidewalk. 

Um, we hired it in, we hired him in 

size versus date. 

Yeah, because 

I love We were north. 

We were north of 10. Okay. But like I agree with you. I remember like pre Jesse, it was Brandon and I. Every day managing LSAs. Mm-hmm. Changing budgets. Like it was a lot, it was a very time consuming, uh, thing.

And that was before, you know. Everything got harder to get leads. 

Yeah. And, and there's more now and there's now you have to deal with AI and all this kind of stuff. Yeah. Idealistically in the long term it makes it easier, but for now it's, 

it's definitely complicated. It's still shocking. 

So 

yeah, it's de definitely complicated.

But yeah, it, I would say two and a half years ago is when we did that, um, we were probably like 13 ish million and, um, yeah. Great change. Sweet. Yep. No, that, that's awesome. Awesome. Alright, so really like scaling from owner to operator is we're we're hiring leaders either promoting from outside, we talked a little bit about like benefits of each, um, talked about delegating a little bit.

Um, definitely 

focusing on sales strategy. Right. And even making that the service manager's job is sales and revenue generation. 

Yeah. I mean, it, it we're a business that. It's leads and sales. Like that's all the, that's all that this really is, is it's leads and sales. And I think we can overcomplicate this as much as we want, but at the end of the day, leads and sales, like without either of those, the business fully stops.

So those are your two most important 

I, recruitment, marketing, recruitment. That's how I like to say it. 'cause But you say sales, I say recruitment, but it's the same thing. It's like people to rev generate revenue. Yeah, I'm with you. Sweet. Sweet. Awesome. 

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