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Mike Greenawalt

CEO of Rosendin Electric

Sep 30, 2026

26:27
And there's a couple of programs out there
26:29
that I was modeling after.
26:31
Quanta, one of our big competitors, Quanta, they have a great lineman school.
26:37
And I basically said, if they can do it, we can do it.
26:40
And I went to the board of directors, I was CEO in 2020, with this harebrained idea about, I wanted to buy a for-profit trade school and let it keep making money teaching welding or air conditioning, whatever it was, and then add on to it a school for electricians, a pre-apprenticeship program.
26:59
We could take our whole training department.
27:01
I had this big, and they looked at me like I was from outer space.

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40:50
How would it work? Could it scale?
1:20
They make us do that.
1:21
And I was so proud of my C average in high school.
1:25
I maintained my C average because of auto shop and wood shop and crafts classes so I could get my average up.
1:31
And I just felt out of place in high school because everyone was talking about where they were going to go to college and what they were going to do.
1:38
And I had no plans.
1:40
I didn't.
1:41
My parents were really forcing the issue.

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20:04
So in Arizona, there's CTE programs and you're going out and you're looking, there's university opportunities, which really I think is super interesting when you start talking about universities, what universities are thinking about the trades.

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