Dan Grifford III, aka “Dan the Roofing Man” is the host of “The Creative Contractor Show”. Dan is an American entrepreneur born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the single member of D3 Ventures, LLC, a company whose holdings include various construction companies and real estate holdings. Dan married his high school sweetheart Viorica (“LaLa”) and they have been together for over twenty years. They have been blessed with three amazing children, Daniel IV, Maximus and Oliva.
In January of 2003, during his senior year of high school and immediately following his termination as a bus boy, Dan joined the family roofing business started in December of 2002. Dan started working for his father by cleaning up jobsites, making runs to the landfill and delivering material to the custom home projects the company was working on. In his downtime, Dan started talking to other custom home builders on the same street and quickly added “sales” to his list of job duties.
Once Dan took over the sales, the company grew 1,300 percent in four years and according to INC Magazine was the fastest growing roofing company in the United States.
The dynamics of partnering and working with family caused Dan to resign from the company his father started. While he grew the family company from $200k in revenue to over $12m in a few short years, he found himself starting over.
In order to feed his family, Dan spent three years traveling biweekly to Orlando, Florida to consult law firms, insurance carriers, hotel firms and builders as their third party expert on technical roof claims, or suits. Because this was taxing on his family, Dan decided to break a promise to himself and get back into contracting.
To bridge the income gap, Dan started working odd construction jobs during the day and then driving Lyft and Uber at night. In 2017, he decided to get back into construction and started “Max Restoration, LLC” and “Max Roofing”. His goal in his first year of roofing was $100,000.00 in revenue and he ended up doing $1.8 million. He immediately was able to get out of debt and stop the night gig.
Since starting “Max” as a roofing company, the services offered have expanded to several bolt-on divisions including restoration, general contracting, HVAC and flooring. He also founded MOD Solar and has invested in various types of real estate projects. Since making Inc Magazine’s “INC 500” fastest growing privately owned companies, Dan has made the INC 5000, four additional times.
Most recently, Dan has launched his podcast “The Creative Contractor”. The entrepreneurial podcast is about a second generation contractor that had early success but more importantly, early failure. It speaks to the listener about why entrepreneurs do what they do, what they should do when they start making money, how to protect what they’ve built and how to give back while they’re doing it. It gives contractors and entrepreneurs a real view on what it’s like to invest in themselves with education, trade certifications, professional coaching, personal development, masterminds and MUCH more.
The show is raw and real and talks about the good, bad, fun and ugly of owning a business and investing for the future.
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