Oct 22, 202525 minS0
<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>When Dane Sawyer came across Roland Swiss Pastry & Bakery, he wasn’t looking to buy a food business. In fact, he told every broker he wanted nothing to do with food.</p><p>But...
About this Podcast:
A rapid-fire interview series featuring small business owners, investors and service providers. We dig into different industries, business models, and SMB topics. Hosted by Will Fry, founder of Mainshares. smb15.substack.com
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What is SMB15 about?
A rapid-fire interview series featuring small business owners, investors and service providers. We dig into different industries, business models, and SMB topics. Hosted by Will Fry, founder of Mainshares.
Who hosts SMB15?
SMB15 is hosted by Mainshares. The show has published 33 episodes to date.
What has SMB15 covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Buying a 60-Year-Old Swiss Bakery with Dane Sawyer, Owner of Roland’s Swiss Pastry & Bakery" (22 October 2025, 25 minutes), "From Backyard Installs to Scalable Lawn Care: How Nick Thompson Built Grounded Lawn" (8 October 2025, 17 minutes), and "Giving Fire Trucks a Second Life with Brian Reyburn, Owner of Firetrucks Unlimited" (1 October 2025, 24 minutes).
How often does SMB15 publish?
SMB15 publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 28 minutes across 33 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on SMB15?
Booking probability for SMB15 is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. SMB15 requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. SMB15's contact route on record: public web form.
Who should pitch SMB15?
The strongest fits for SMB15 are Business & Management Consulting and Photography, Polling & Other Services. SMB15 has a business audience.
About the host
Mainshares hosts SMB15, a business podcast with 33 episodes published.
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Oct 8, 202517 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>When Nick Thompson launched Grounded Lawn, it started as a side hustle doing backyard installs, sod, rock, and hardscape projects for new Colorado homes. By 2021, he realized...
Oct 1, 202524 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>When Brian Reyburn’s father left the Air Force fire service to start a landscaping company, no one could have predicted it would lead to refurbishing fire trucks for the U.S...
Sep 24, 202527 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>From a life-changing trip to Sonoma to scaling three retail locations in New Jersey, Jeff Carroll’s journey with Wine Dads shows how passion and persistence can reshape a...
Sep 17, 202514 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>From a five-star review on his very first job to scaling toward $600K in revenue, Will Barrett’s journey with Will Do It Windows shows what happens when you combine grit with...
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Sep 10, 202531 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>Brandon Karam was practicing patent law when he stumbled on a very personal problem: he loved wet wipes but developed an allergic reaction that forced him to stop using them...
Sep 3, 202522 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>From $2M worth of equipment bought for just $265K to building a team around veterans and experienced distillers, Jordan Griffie’s story isn’t your typical spirits launch. In...
Aug 27, 202536 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>After getting stiffed on a big commission, Scott Crosby decided he’d never work for someone else again. Within a year, he bought American Services, a 30-year-old commercial...
Aug 20, 202538 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>From getting fired as a bartender to running a multi-crew painting company, Matt Carlson has seen it all. In this episode of SMB15, Matt shares the raw story of building M...
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Starting a 3D Printing Business from Scratch with Ryan Baskins, Owner of Chatelet Manufacturing
Aug 13, 202528 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>When COVID hit, Ryan Baskins was selling HVAC systems to hotels — not a great place to be. Over beers with a friend, he had a realization: 3D printing had finally gotten good...
Aug 6, 202522 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>Julia Callahan quit a stable career in medical sales to knock on doors with a handwritten notebook. Less than a year later, she’s grown Jubilee Cleaning Services to 17...
Jul 30, 202532 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>Ryan Robinson didn’t grow up dreaming of shingles. But after working in transportation and getting laid off during a downturn, he fell into roofing — and never looked back...
Jul 23, 202524 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>After 14 years as a railroad engineer, Scott Gunter bet the house — and $116K — on a single container of packaging from a Chinese supplier he’d never spoken to. That gamble...
Jul 16, 202528 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>California has 6,000 metal fabrication shops and very few successors to run them. Jules Brenner is on a mission to fix that. Through Industrial Succession, he’s buying and...
Jul 9, 202532 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>After stints in investment banking and private equity, Chris acquired System Six in July 2021, a remote accounting firm serving SMBs. He doubled the team, expanding into...
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Buying & Operating a Commercial Printing Business with Connor Pera, Owner of The Print Authority
Jun 25, 202530 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>Many assume print is dying, but Connor Pera would disagree. After acquiring The Print Authority, he found a surprisingly durable and fragmented market filled with sticky B2B...
Jun 18, 202534 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>Paul never saw himself installing fences. After serving in the Marines straight out of high school, he joined the upper echeleons of finance at Blackrock, but something was...
Jun 11, 202533 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>Kyle has built the WeBuyUglyHouses of the floral industry. He won't pay top dollar, but he'll give retiring owners cash at close and let them drop the keys and walk into the...
Jun 4, 202537 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>What does it take to build a vacation rental management company from scratch? Franklin Dusserre walks us through his journey building French Cowboys Management. What began as...
May 28, 202517 minS0<p>Listen now on Spotify or YouTube.</p><p>John started in debt collections right out of college. Staked by his former boss in his late 20s to buy his first agency, he's spent the last two decades quietly scaling in a...
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