Saying No to CEO Roles, Yes to Ownership

And that's for the reason that we've already just talked about, that you didn't want to be on anybody else's timeline?

Yeah. Not yet. Not yet. Yeah. Maybe eventually, but not now.

I think it came to a point where I was, so I was in a searchers group. This is where I know Iris Levine and Ben Miller. They started a search group just within searchfunder.com.

And so they just put out a request to say, hey, you know, we're looking to start a group. And I started to join. We were having these biweekly calls.

There was like, I think eight of us at the time that we're searching. Amazingly, four of us bought, which was like within six months. It's a pretty incredible group.

And a few of them are still searching and getting very, very close. So we're really excited for them as well. I started to hear like what the SBA stuff was, what they were kind of the hurdles, the challenges.

And I think it's worth it. And again, if I went bigger, I would have absolutely gone through that. But I found an opportunity that was small enough that I said...

I'm not gonna swear on your podcast, Will, but I was like, F it. I'm just doing it. Like, I'm gonna invest in myself. Like, I have the money to do it.

I don't, you know, I'm just investing it right now. Like, I live alone. You know, it's just me. I have no other mouths to feed.

I've got a ton of flexibility. The car's paid off, right? Like, it's like, you know, it's like, I'm just gonna spend my money on me and I'm gonna do this and make this investment in me.

And so it ended up being something where I didn't need to go down the SBA row. And frankly, the size I bought... there was just all these really strange hurdles.