Too Good to Be True: Year 1 in a $700k SDE Business

So we're both, like, shielding ourselves and, you know, we suss that out over several months. But it's reasonable on both sides. You don't know.

Yeah, sure. And so the, but all of the turnover that happened. What, anything to any learnings from that? I mean, any learnings.

After weeks, my wife and I, we, you know, we talked and we said, like, who do you think is going to be with us long term? Or who do we want? You know, who's going to fit the culture? And it wasn't. It wasn't many. It was these two people here.

I felt like everyone else didn't. And they, they weren't bad, they weren't, you know, they weren't evil. They just, they just didn't fit with, with who we are.

And so we selectively chose people. Yeah.

And then going back, Zack, to something you said earlier about starting, you know, part of the reason you buy business is so that it's a bit of. A shortcut, but if you basically are. Here with just two of the original people, you start to wonder if, like, could you have spun that up from scratch and hire.

Start to think that. Yes. What does think that? And, and, you know, it goes across my mind all the time.

But I will say I, I will say that I have, I have Hannah. She's our office manager.

She's awesome.

She's doing our, our lead categorization right now. So I created. I'm a spreadsheet nerd. So I created a spreadsheet.

And our CRM system isn't, like, fantastic. It's jobber. It's not, you know, all around. It was a little bit cheaper than the other one, so we chose it.