About

Andy DeMatos holds an MBA from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and spent fifteen years building marketing functions and brands for startups and Fortune 500 companies. He worked with Pabst Blue Ribbon, helped Indian Motorcycle gain market share on Harley, and partnered with Polaris Ranger and Jake Owen to rename a town Ranger Country in America.

His father was a general contractor who ran a dental lab for fifty years. Andy is selling it now. His brother (co-founder) has owned, operated, and sold multiple businesses in the hospitality, specialty contracting, and B2B services spaces. They’ve lived through the overwhelming experience of building, scaling, and selling a business. The fire drills, finding good help, paperwork, operations, retirement, the list goes on

Retrospectively, we realized that most contracting and main-street business owners spend so much time working IN their business rather than ON their business. This trap creates less freedom, less profitability, and less value for what comes next: retirement, business sale, succession, or liquidation event.

That's why he started Gotta Go Buffalo.

He helps contracting and main street business owners build a business they can sell, grow, or keep. A sellable business is a better business to own. It gives you more freedom and a retirement plan while creating more value for your customers and ensuring a successful value transfer to the next generation of owners.

The next generation needs to see the trades as a viable path. Not just a fallback, but a real choice. A life of creative problem solving, craftsmanship, and building the physical world we all live in. That starts with honoring the people who've done it well and helping them exit with dignity and clarity.