KKR pays $2B for A1 Garage Door Service as marketer bets AI belongs in boring main-street businesses
boringmarketer · x · 2026-09-03
The author argues the biggest wealth opportunity in the AI age is boring main-street businesses: with 10,000 boomers retiring daily, most people sell AI to AI people, while applying AI to unsophisticated local markets (buy, build, or service one) beats competing with VC-backed startups or Anthropic/OpenAI. Supporting M&A data: KKR is acquiring A1 Garage Door Service for $2B, after Oak Hill bought Guild Garage for $800M in March (16x EBITDA), and Cortec took A1 Garage at 22x EBITDA in 2022 — now implying $80M+ EBITDA at low-to-mid 20x.
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