What I Learned Scaling 4 Companies at Once

What I Learned Scaling 4 Companies at Once

Let me tell you something most business owners won’t admit: trying to scale even one company will test every part of your patience, systems, and leadership.

I scaled four.

Retro Revival. Salient. Tandant. Pedant Transportation.

All very different companies. All built from the ground up. And all growing at the same time.

And here’s the truth—I couldn’t have done it without Tandant.

📈 From $3M to $50M: The Pedant Transportation Story

When we first launched Pedant Transportation, we were doing a few million a year in revenue. That’s not bad by any means—but I knew the business had the potential to go much further, much faster.

The problem? We were buried in freight coordination, tracking, driver updates, follow-ups, and paperwork. The backend couldn’t keep up with the front.

That’s when I used Tandant to build a dedicated operations support team. In-office. Full-time. Fully trained to our systems.

Within two years, the chaos disappeared. Loads moved faster. Customers stayed longer. Sales got sharper because we had a team behind the scenes actually executing the daily grind.

We went from $3 million to over $50 million in revenue in under five years. No VC funding. No miracle hires. Just real structure—and a real team that showed up every day and got the job done.

🤯 The Big Realization

You can’t grow four companies by managing every task yourself. You can’t grow one. What I realized is that delegation only works if the people you’re delegating to are actually dependable.

That’s why Tandant is in-office only. No freelancers. No distractions. Just trained professionals showing up to a real building with real management and real accountability.

That model didn’t just support Pedant—it built the infrastructure I use across every company I own.

📊 What Tandant Does for Me (and Can Do for You)

• Customer service teams that don’t miss a beat
• Freight coordination without the micromanagement
• Image editors that process thousands of files a week
• Developers who plug into our software stack like they’ve been there forever
• Time tracking, SOPs, shift management, and full transparency across every team

That’s the difference between hiring help… and building infrastructure.

Tandant wasn’t just one of the companies I built—it’s the company that made the others work.

🔥 My Advice to Any Founder Trying to Scale

If you’re still doing everything yourself, stop. If you’re still hiring based on price instead of process, stop. If you’re still trying to scale a team without any structure, stop.

You need systems. You need consistency. You need the right people in the right seats—whether they sit in your office or mine.

Tandant gives you that. I built it to solve my own problems. Now it solves them for clients around the world.

🚀 Final Thought

You can run a business. Or you can scale one.

I chose scale. And I built Tandant to make that possible.

— Drew Renslow, Founder of Tandant