Day in the life of a founder building a nationwide commercial services acquisition platform
March 20, 2026
by a searcher from Gettysburg College in La Jolla Shores Beach, San Diego, CA 92037, USA
For any current or aspiring service business operators, feel free to check out my recent linkedin post about my day in the life as I grow and find cleaning companies to buy in our roll up in the commercial cleaning space.
The goal with this is to build a personal brand and create deal flow through it over time.
If you have any feedback on how you think I can do this better, please let me know. I am still very much so an amateur in the content side and looking to learn as much as I can.
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matthew-christou-a913a1281_last-week-i-filmed-a-day-in-the-life-of-building-activity-7429564195882409984-1Afr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAESUKs0BB2CIK9pz7GUvHYnlfxpxLGLxvz0
Last week I filmed a day in the life of building a nationwide cleaning company at 27 years living in San Diego.
It started with me pulling a jar of Vegemite out in my car before a prospect meeting, which probably looked ridiculous but I'll explain.
He's from Australia, runs a portfolio of warehouses, and most companies would've shown up with a brochure and a handshake. I showed up with something that is memorable and important to his culture because that's the difference between being a vendor and being a partner and that's exactly why we've built a 96.5% client retention rate.
That meeting turned into a site walkthrough.
Well sized warehouse, and the facilities manager had that exhausted look I've seen so many times before. The look you get after vendors have let you down enough times that you've stopped expecting anything better. We walked him through our staffing model, our communication structure, and what our escalation process looks like at 11 PM on a Friday.
Our goal is to be the first company coming in with a professional system instead of just a price.
Around 10:30 I stopped at a taco spot nearby, packed on a Tuesday morning with a line out the door, and I just stood there thinking about how nobody marketed their way to that. They just made a great product over and over until the demand took care of itself.
The rest of the afternoon was content, calls, and going through our new branded hats that just came in. And it may sound small but in my opinion, it's not, because the logo on the watch band, or even the Vegemite - none of it matters alone but together it adds up to a company that genuinely cares about every single detail and will bring us to a nationwide level.
Follow along as we grow Big League Clean into a nationwide cleaning company.
