Builder · Investor · Author
Real value,not strategytheater.
We invest in the trades — businesses that deliver, run by people who show up. Stoic wisdom, entrepreneurial drive, no theater.
- Founder & Chairman of Infinity Home Services
- Builder & investor in the trades
- Author & student of the Stoics
New memoir · Out now
They were never in the room.
A memoir about resilience, ambition, and the freedom found in letting go. From foster care and seventeen schools to the top of a half-billion-dollar enterprise — and what it took to stop living for someone else's approval.
Ventures
Two companies.
One mission.
More than thirty brands across residential and commercial construction, all built on a single conviction: saving our communities from unscrupulous contractors.
Infinity Home Services
Founder & Chairman · Residential exteriors
The company Josh founded and has been building since his first roof in 1997 — a family of 25 local home-exterior brands across the United States and Canada, each keeping its own name, team, and reputation while sharing the resources of the platform.
Visit infinityhomeservices.com →
Roofed Right America
Partner turned Board Member · Commercial roofing
Josh joined this Milwaukee-based commercial roofer as a one-third partner at $3 million in sales, helped build it to $20 million, and stayed on through its 2023 sale to private equity. Today it runs at more than $100 million across the lower 48, and Josh still serves on the board.
$3M→$20M→$100M+
roofedright.com →Built, not bought.
A new deal between the trades and capital: back builders, not just balance sheets. Residential and commercial construction ride different cycles and serve different customers, but enduring companies in both are built on the same three things — craftsmanship, straight dealing, and operators who love their people. Sparks Endeavors builds and backs businesses where those three compound for decades.
Podcast
The Long Game.
Building durable companies the right way — leading with purpose, putting people first, and letting the profits follow. Biweekly conversations with contractors, brand presidents, and industry veterans about leadership, scale, and legacy.
@TheLongGameIHS →
Featured episode
Why most leaders chase the wrong scoreboard
Revenue, headcount, exits — the numbers everyone tracks and why they make a poor scoreboard. What to measure instead if you're playing the long game.
Watch on YouTube →
Philosophy
The operating system.
Every company, every page of the books, every talk from a stage runs on the same code the Stoics wrote two thousand years ago.
Sophia
Wisdom
See things as they are — not as fear reports them, not as ego prefers them. Decide on evidence, hold opinions loosely, and let the scoreboard tell the truth.
Andreia
Courage
Do the hard right thing over the easy wrong one. Every worthwhile thing here started on a roof at eighteen; nothing worth building has ever been comfortable.
Dikaiosyne
Justice
Deal straight — with customers, crews, and partners. Fair pricing and transparency aren't marketing; they're the reason any of this deserves to exist.
Sophrosyne
Temperance
Success is not the same as peace. Discipline in prosperity, moderation at the peak, and the self-command to want what you already have.
Resilience in chaos. Integrity in success.
Speaking
From the stage.
Keynotes and workshops for operators, owners, and the private-equity firms that back them.
-
The Stoic CEO
Building an unshakable business and an unbreakable self. How ancient practice holds up under modern pressure — board seats, payroll, and all.
-
Everyone Has Your Strategy, Nobody Has Your Execution
Strategy is table stakes; execution and culture decide the game. Based on the book in progress — why the best plan usually loses to the best team, and how to build the team that wins.
-
They Were Never in the Room
From foster care to a half-billion-dollar enterprise — and why success isn't the same as peace. The story behind the memoir, for audiences who build under pressure.
-
From the Roof Down
A shingler's path to a half-billion-dollar platform — what private equity gets right and wrong about the trades, and how blue-collar businesses become institutional assets without losing their soul.
About
Josh
Sparks
Started at eighteen with a nail gun and a friend's offer of work on a Milwaukee roof.
That was 1997. The company he went on to found became Infinity Home Services — 25 brands, more than half a billion dollars in revenue, and a standing mission to save communities from unscrupulous contractors.
Along the way he sold a stake to private equity, scaled through two growth transactions, and handed the CEO seat to a successor to serve as founder and chairman — trading day-to-day operations for the longer game: investing, writing, and speaking.
He lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife MaryJean and their five children.