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Seven businesses built, run, and sold. $100M in revenue with 29 employees. And a playbook for scaling without drowning in headcount. Eliot Vancil, serial entrepreneur and managing partner of FuelLogic, one of the only national providers of diesel, gasoline, and DEF delivery for fleet operators, joins Exit Algorithms to break down exactly how he builds lean, high-output companies with elite culture and no wasted seats.

We cover:

– Why micromanaging 70 employees nearly destroyed his first company and what a peer group told him that changed everything
– How EOS transformed his businesses and why he had unknowingly drifted into running “Eliot’s Operating System” instead
– The 20 Mile March: stacking 20 qualified deals every month for 10 years and never missing
– The three questions he asks before hiring anyone: Is the pain temporary? Can it be solved with process? Can it be solved with technology?
– Why FuelLogic does over $100M a year with 29 people and how shared gross profit compensation is the engine behind it
– How to find and execute acquisitions without bringing cancer into your culture
– How AI handles invoice processing, dispatch routing, sales prospecting, and risk management at FuelLogic today
– Why AI data center construction in Texas has completely changed his exit timeline
– Eliot’s tip: your leadership team is everything. Build it early and your company’s value follows.

Connect with Eliot on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliotvancil/) or visit fuellogic.net.

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Related episodes:
– Ep. 54: AI Transformation and the Exponential Divide with Nikki Barua
– Ep. 53: The Magic Script and AI Visibility with Jimi Gibson

00:00 Intro: Meet Eliot Vancil, managing partner of FuelLogic
01:28 From house painter’s son to serial entrepreneur
03:30 Network Logic: building an MSP before recurring revenue was a thing
06:00 Nexus Consulting: evergreen telecom commissions and the master agency model
08:00 How FuelLogic started from a crazy idea that worked better than anything else
09:48 Early mistakes: micromanaging 70 employees and a toxic culture
13:00 The peer group that changed everything and what they said first
16:42 How to find the right peer group for your industry
18:27 Why being the center of everything devalues your company at exit
20:37 EOS: the entrepreneurial operating system explained and how Eliot runs it
29:21 Recommitting to EOS and dropping “Eliot’s Operating System”
32:42 Hiring framework: temporary pain, process fix, or technology before headcount
39:00 Revenue predictability within 1% and calling your shot every quarter
41:42 Organic growth vs. acquisition and how to roll up without killing culture
52:18 How Eliot uses AI personally and inside FuelLogic
59:44 AI as a thought partner and what ChatGPT knows about you
1:00:29 Fueling AI data center construction in Texas and the renewed exit runway

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