Thread by @Codie_Sanchez

Want to be a billionaire? You don't have to invent the next Facebook or Bitcoin.

Here are 5 normal guys who all became billionaires through boring business M&A:

Arte Moreno - Worked in billboards at Ganett when he saw an upstart billboard company in AZ called Outdoor Systems. He bought it - then built it up and sold it for $8.7B

-Signs on highways (boring)
-Went on to own the Los Angeles Angels & be worth $3.4B (sexy)

Joseph Grendys - Worked in chicken processing, gross.

Bought out the company he worked at, and kept buying companies; now Koch Foods does $3 Billion a year.

-Poultry processor that slaughters, ships and sells chicken (boring & kinda yucky)
-Now he’s worth $2.3 Billion (sexy)

Sheldon Lavin - Worked in meat processing and then bought out the company he worked for. He kept on buying smaller co’s to hit $6B in annual revenue

-Processing cattle (boring & bloody?)
-Now he processes for Impossible Burgers too (sexy)

James Neal Blue - He and his brother did RE, sold land, built up flour & sugar companies, a pizza joint roll-up and then bought out defense companies..

-Land, pizza, flour & sugar (boring)
-Now manufacturers the predator drone & worth $3 billion (sexy)

Wayne Huizanga - Waste Mangement $57B market cap, through buying trash trucks first, then trash companies...

-Smelly trash (boring
-Went on to own the Miami Dolphins, FL Panthers & Marlins (sexy)

Here's what I learned from these 5:

- You don’t have to have money to do M&A.
- You don’t have to be self-employed to become a billionaire.
- Go work for companies where maybe you can buy it out or take over a part of it.
- Learn an industry, then buy within that industry.

Lesson: You want to become a billionaire?

First, do boring things, then you can do 10x the sexy things.