Pedro Noyola from Balanced Business Group
Serial entrepreneurship, winery accounting, and setting family OKRs with Pedro Noyola
Serial entrepreneurship, winery accounting, and setting family OKRs with Pedro Noyola
About the Episode
About the Episode
Transcript
Pedro Noyola is the CEO of Balanced Business Group, an outsourced accounting and bookkeeping firm serving small boutique wineries. In this episode, Pedro shares his career journey from working at Deloitte, to acquiring his 10th business. Stuart and Pedro also chat about cars, serving winery clients, and balancing family, fun, and career as an entrepreneur.
Episode Themes
Episode Notes
- Pedro's Texas upbringing (2:31)
- What he learned from working at Deloitte (3:42)
- His first entrepreneurial venture (6:00)
- Meeting life-changing friends at a car startup (7:43)
- The rise and fall of the car startup (13:40)
- Acquiring Balanced Business Group (23:19)
- What makes winery accounting and winery clients so special (25:43)
- How Pedro and his wife use family OKRs to take on life's challenges (32:37)
- Enjoying life in San Francisco (42:49)
- What's next on Pedro's acquisition roadmap (48:26)
Episode Themes
Episode Notes
- Pedro's Texas upbringing (2:31)
- What he learned from working at Deloitte (3:42)
- His first entrepreneurial venture (6:00)
- Meeting life-changing friends at a car startup (7:43)
- The rise and fall of the car startup (13:40)
- Acquiring Balanced Business Group (23:19)
- What makes winery accounting and winery clients so special (25:43)
- How Pedro and his wife use family OKRs to take on life's challenges (32:37)
- Enjoying life in San Francisco (42:49)
- What's next on Pedro's acquisition roadmap (48:26)
About the Guest
Pedro Noyola is the CEO of Balanced Business Group, an outsourced accounting, and bookkeeping firm serving small boutique wineries on the west coast. Pedro is a serial entrepreneur with several successful acquisitions under his belt. He has held executive and leadership positions at multiple successful technology companies, including FluentStream and Telogis, which was later acquired by Verizon. He graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA and is an alumnus of the UT McCombs School of Business.
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