Housecall Pro co-founder downplays PE/AI threat to independent HVAC shops

Roland Ligtenberg of Housecall Pro responds to news that AI companies partnered with private equity to buy HVAC businesses, arguing none of it poses existential risk and that homeowners still prefer a local owner-operated company over a PE-owned one.

“it's going to be a local company, someone whose hand I can shake that owns that company, I don't, I don't want, I don't want an own company like that, you know, in my home, I just don't, I wouldn't pick it.”

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