GPS (Gameplan, People, System)
Buy or grow a business predictably and less painfully: set the gameplan, surround yourself with people, run the system.
Contrarian Thinking's operating structure, stated in Sanchez's own voice. GAMEPLAN sets the vision for the company, the life and the team. PEOPLE surrounds the owner with operators, deal scouts, capital partners and advisers who have actually bought and scaled businesses. SYSTEM is the operating manual: how to find, finance, fix, buy and scale. The stated purpose is to make acquisition predictable, consistent, profitable and less painful.
- Gameplan: set the vision for the company, the life and the team
- People: surround yourself with those who have actually bought and scaled
- System: how to find, finance, fix, buy and scale
- Predictable and less painful beats heroic
Codified as Contrarian Thinking scaled from a newsletter into a media-and-capital business, and used as the spine of the education Sanchez sells to would-be acquirers. The company reports 9 figures of revenue across dozens of businesses and over a million weekly readers.