n June we published an interview with JD Hasley, who bought an upscale frame shop in Dallas and in one year grew revenue 50% and returned to himself all the equity he'd put into the deal.

Well JD mentions a family friend who had had great success buying a business, and inspired JD down the path.

Today we get to hear directly from this family friend of JD's, entrepreneur Jeff Horn, and how he bought and grew a Xerox sales & service business called Benchmark Business Solutions.

Jeff was 35 and doing very well for himself at his job, but wanted to lead his own business.

Despite having a busy family life with 3 boys, and a valuable amount of equity with his then-employer that he'd have to walk away from, Jeff took the leap.

When he bought Benchmark in 2012 it was doing about $5m in revenue.

When he sold it five years later, it was doing over $30m in revenue — and growing.

The exit was of course life changing for Jeff, who today works as founder and general partner in the first institutional capital provider in his native Lubbock, Texas.

See if Jeff's story inspires you the way it did JD.

Here he is, Jeff Horn, former owner of Benchmark Business Solutions.