Buying and Building a Xerox Dealer to $30m

Well, we're talking about the, you know, right around the 2011, 2012, you know, time frame. We had had we had three young boys at that period in time. My wife had a blossoming, you know, pharmacy career working for Walmart and managing a lot of their.

uh, stores out in the West Texas area. Life was really busy. Um, you know, that was one of the, maybe the, the check marks in the column of, you know, stay put where you're at.

And there was a there was a lot, you know, going on professionally. I was doing very well. I matter of fact, I was making more money than I ever really thought I would ever make, you know, to be honest.

And and and I think that a path. you know, for a long-term career, you know, there was definitely possible. But again, I just felt this urging or, you know, passion to want to lead an organization of my own someday.

And so, you know, ultimately decided to leave and to try to find something.

Was this one of these where you really had to convince your wife or where your colleagues or people at the business where you were, were all scratching their heads? Because, you know, you have all these responsibilities, as you said, you know, three boys in the throes of sports and, you know, needing, you know, you're just, your family life is just really cranking. Yeah.

So it does seem like it seemed like not the most opportune time to go out on your own. And you're doing so well at work as it was. So did it take convincing of either yourself or the people around you? Well, no.

I'll say this. My wife said, Hey, if this goes bad, I'm, you know, this was a hundred percent your decision, but my wife was, my wife was very supportive. I mean, uh, you know, to the point of, of, uh, you know, being so loyal and supportive, I think, I think she felt, you know, for me, supporting her going through pharmacy school and all of that, and then her having a.

a very stable career and being excited about that you know she was she was excited to try to help me i think and so she was always extremely supportive her having a stable you know professional you know career as a pharmacist really played a big role in our ability to be able to to try something new and to take a risk and you buy a business and so you know i would say largely you know it was a…

She understood, you know, the situation where I was and that that could be a, you know, a fine career. But she she was, you know, thinking that, you know, it'd be great if we controlled our own path moving forward and and, you know, to go out and do it. So I would say she was right there with me.

great well that support is is really a blessing and so what did your search to buy business look like did you just kind of