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The More Things Change...

Wayne Rivers
By Wayne Rivers
10 minutes
Last updated April 9, 2025

In January of 2025, Brown Brothers Harriman, an investment bank, produced their “Private Business Owner Survey.” They interviewed 400 private business owners who own firms generating between $50 million to over $1 billion. That revenue range is almost a perfect overlap with our members, so that makes their findings even more compelling. You’re not going to believe what they found!

Please tune in this week as Wayne reveals their rather shocking survey results and laments that even after all the decades of education, public speeches, books, articles in the financial press, webinars, etc., the privately owned business community hasn’t moved the needle very much at all! Do these survey results strike you as accurate? What are your reactions? Please email Wayne at wrivers@performanceconstruction.com and let him know your thoughts.

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