Franchising: One of the Best Innovations Since the LLC with Robert Huntington: An EOFire Classic from 2022

From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2022. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Robert Huntington is CEO of Metric Collective, a vertically integrated franchise and technology company. Before Metric he was a BCG consultant, teacher, 50M dollars P and L manager and franchise executive.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Once you've already proven that you can execute the model, that’s when you can start innovating the model.

2. If you have good union economics - if you have something that customers need - and the market is growing, then franchising can be a really attractive route.

3. Franchising means you’re in business for yourself - not by yourself.

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