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Looking to crush it in pest control? Welcome to Pest Control Legends, where we interview the top people in pest control every week. Hosted by Danny Leibrandt, Pest Control Legends is meant to help pest control owners at every stage and every aspect of business.
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Kyle Turner: Building a 140 Employee Pest Control Company (Without Door Knocking) (opens the original)
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On this episode of Pest Control Legends, Dan Leibrandt interviews Kyle Turner, founder and CEO of Pro Active Pest Control in Roseville, California. Kyle grew up doing landscaping for his dad and always assumed his own business would be a landscaping company, but after watching a cousin and a friend succeed in pest control, he took a pay cut to become a technician, got his California license before anyone would hire him, and spent two years in the field before launching Proactive in 2014. Twelve
Paul Giannamore: What Your Pest Control Company Is Actually Worth in 2026 (opens the original)
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On this episode of Pest Control Legends, Dan Leibrandt interviews Paul Giannamore, managing director of The Potomac Company. Paul is recognized by institutional investors, Wall Street analysts, and the largest companies in the industry as the top global authority on pest control valuation and M&A. He started his career as a tech banker at Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse before moving to the buy side at American Capital, then founded Potomac at 25 years old. He fell into pest control almost by
Brandon Sizemore: The CPA Who Left Accounting and Built a $7M Pest Control Company (opens the original)
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On this episode of Pest Control Legends, Dan Leibrandt interviews Brandon Sizemore, owner of Mint Pest Control. Brandon is a licensed CPA who spent 12 years in accounting before walking away to start a pest control business in 2020. He pulled the equity out of his home, took a line of credit, and bet everything on it. Six years later, Mint is a $7 million company with four locations growing through door to door, inside sales, SEO, and one of the most recognizable brands in the industry. Brandon
Jeff Stafford: 40 Years in Commercial Pest Control (Airports, Stadiums, and Bed Bug Dogs) (opens the original)
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On this episode of Pest Control Legends, Dan Leibrandt interviews Jeff Stafford, president of Innovative Pest Solutions. Jeff has been in the industry over 40 years, starting in the field the day after his 18th birthday. In 1994 he launched Bird Solutions International, which has handled some of the largest bird jobs in the country including 1.2 million square feet of netting at SeaTac Airport, the San Onofre nuclear plant, Pearl Harbor, and Petco Park. He ran the same specialist playbook again
John Speed: Building a $13M Pest Control Company From Scratch (in Hawaii) (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dan sits down with John Speed, owner and president of Kilauea Pest Control. John founded Kilauea in 2002 with his wife Jennifer and built it from the ground up into one of the largest pest control companies in the country, projected to do $13 million this year with a team of more than 100 across Oahu, Maui, and Molokai. Kilauea is the only local Hawaii based company ever ranked on the PCT Top 100. John shares what it takes to build a pest control company in Hawaii, from the brut
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