Buying a $40m Business as a 49-Year-Old First-Timer

You're welcome. Happy to be here.

So you're going to find out very quickly. I married up and I always tell people you'd ask if I have. I do come from the sales tribe.

All right, Greg. Well, I see that. Yeah, you, you convert and then you retain the client very well.

So good, Good work.

Yes, Barbara, as we talked about in our previous call, the so often in our world here of buying businesses, the guests on the podcast, we hear that the journey is difficult and so difficult that it bleeds into the family life, the personal life, the life with the partner, if there is a partner. And so therefore, searchers and would be business buyers who have a partner need to really tell them…

Be totally transparent about what this could look like, because it's going to be a roller coaster. It's likely going to be hard. It's likely going to affect the partnership, the family.

So we know this, we hear this a lot, this advice, but it's very rare that we actually hear from the partner.

Okay.

We're usually just talking to the protagonist, the Greg, but he had the great idea to get your perspective of these events, which I loved. And so we invited you on and you graciously said, yes, we're not going to keep you very long. Barbara, I got a few questions for you.

But that's the context where we are at the point in the story is that you guys have come back to Texas from Seattle, Daskey's gone public, and Greg is now itching to go do his own entrepreneurial journey and buy a business. Enter you. And in that conversation with you, how did you react to this project?

Yeah. So, you know, this was not new news to me. We, you know, we've been building towards this for a long time. You know, moving to Washington was a big change for us because Greg was changing industries, but he was going to a job.