Because again, if I'm here and just doing this, there's going to be a limit to how much opportunity there is for everybody else in the business to shine. And we've got several early folks early in their career who are very talented, who have expressed the desire to do more. They want to run businesses someday.
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Growing a $5m Metal Business 40% in Year 1
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They want, want to grow and run operations or go do sales or do something like that. If we don't grow, we're not serving them because they're going to have to wait for somebody to exit the business, whether due to retirement or other, for them to get an opportunity to do something new. But if we grow it, we are able to provide those opportunities to them.
And beyond that, you know, beyond it being manufacturing, I mean, certainly there are things like would it be great to, to have a dedicated fab shop? Would that really help us? Are there some other things that I can think of, of capabilities that would be very complementary to our existing business?
Yes, but there are other businesses that we can think of. You know, I come from a product background in manufacturing. I would love one day to own a business that was more product based because there's a whole set of skills and interests that you have there that you don't really get to use in the design and build space.
Right. So that would be super interesting. But really. And as far as what it looks like, I mean, a lot of what I've learned is you just have to look at a lot of different things, talk to a lot of different people and then be creative when the right opportunity comes together. Because usually it's not how you thought it would be and not what you thought it would be. So really under that umbrella,…
You are driving an hour and 20 minutes each way?
Yes.
The search radius for searchers, it can often be they think they can have a longer commute than they actually can. They during their search, go to see a business two hours away thinking that this is something that they'll grind through. And then once they do the trip, once they realize that no, that is way too generous a radius.
An hour and 20 is serious and probably pushing it and probably over the threshold for many people. How is it actually day to day for you?
I mean, they're long days. It's no doubt about it. I think what makes it possible is I'm from Los Angeles, so I'm used to spending a lot of time in the car.
It's, it's a, it's definitely longer than if I had my ideal. I would like but it's been, it's been good. Lots of time for calls in the car, lots of time to think.
That's my thinking time. You know, listen to stimulating podcasts. There's, there's, I do a lot of work in the car, strangely enough, take voice memos.
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