Frequently Asked Questions

Contrarian Thinking is much more than just a newsletter. We’re a bootstrapped startup based in Austin, Texas. We’re one of the fastest-growing finance and business media companies in the world with over 1M+ subscribers on our newsletters and 11M+ followers on our social platforms.

That’s hard to know, we can’t give you financial advice. That said, we teach 21 different ways to buy a business using creative financing, SBA loans, third party fundraises etc to buy. The largest private equity funds in the world don’t use their own funds to acquire a business. We believe that knowledge should be given to you too. Do you lack money? Or do you lack knowledge on how to raise it? Close your knowledge gap.

We’ve found that most alumni who do the work, complete a transaction in a year. But we’re here to help every member execute on your timeline. We like the 20-90-1 method. Twenty minutes a day, for 90 days, and 1 year spent learning and growing. Commit to yourself and watch what happens.

Hi! I’m Codie Sanchez, we own lots of businesses at Contrarian Thinking Capital and Main Street Holding Company *you can see them on the site here. We’ve taught 9,000+ how to buy and build businesses *you can see all our owners all over our sites and social. After more than a decade in finance I realized we could either buy all the businesses ourselves like private equity guys do, or we could bring people along with us. I stopped believing it was better for me, or anyone, to own everything. So now we have 5 years and thousands of owners to prove that how we do acquisitions works and yes, we can take back Main Street.

Yes, 30-day money back guarantee for anyone who joins the Academy and doesn’t find the want to continue to committing. We are here to serve you. We believe in being unreasonably helpful because we know… you can do this. It’s really all up to you.

Many of our members tell us their advisors use our program as a tax deduction too. That said, enrolling in our program might qualify for a tax deduction or credit, but it depends on each person’s situation—so it’s always smart to check with a tax advisor to see what applies.

Only you know the answer to that. What I know to be true, my only regret in life thus far is waiting to long to bet on myself. Every day I waited was a tax on the future life I truly wanted.

Yikes. Guarantees are risky business. We do not believe there are any in life except death and taxes. We are very careful about things that sound too good to be true. Because, well, they often are. We also believe you will never regret the skill of becoming a dealmaker, we’ll teach you. We teach a man to fish, as opposed to how the first one he snags is the right one and lasts a lifetime.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Go search all our socials, look us up on Trustpilot, see the people around the world who have bought businesses. Our millions of followers and thousands of students are our best way to show you what’s possible. This is a process as old as buying real estate it just hasn’t been available for all. We change that.

Do you believe in betting on you? That’s a fundamental question only you can answer. We think you either take the risk or you work for someone who did. You also know that most people will never do anything. So our entire mission is to find you the doers who will follow through and execute. That is really the key ingredient. We call you doers, not talkers.