“My goal is EBITDA growth… scaling is a strategy for that… if I’m not focusing on EBITDA and gross margin, I’m not really accomplishing what scaling is supposed to do”

The Pro Serv Podcast: Grow, Scale, and Exit a Boutique Professional Services Firm · Scaling Is Subtraction: What the Founder Has to Stop Doing with Todd Rapp | Episode 275

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Set EBITDA growth as the primary goal and linked it to increasing gross margin, using that as the definition of scaling

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