Severe labor shortage across trade-related businesses

Laughridge notes that across trade-related businesses, finding skilled labor is extremely difficult even when willing to pay well, a constraint shaping how owners staff and scale.

“it's just the labor issues that everyone in trade related businesses faces. It's just so difficult. Not even, like we're willing to pay a lot and it's still hard to find people.”

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