But you did do the lawsuit anyway.
Acquiring Minds
How to 4x EBITDA in 3 Years Without Growing Sales
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Had to. Yeah. That's the. That's your fiduciary responsibility to your shareholders. But I didn't overinvest in it. I didn't, like, sit there and opine about what I should have done.
It was just like, okay, this is what we're doing. And then I learned from the investors kind of the playbook of what works and what didn't. And I knew some guard rails, and obviously you have to manage through it, but it wasn't the weight of the world on me.
I recognized that all these other successful people had been through this. And it's just kind of part, unfortunately, some people experience this, and then what was cool about it is on the other side of that, I became like the, you know, the person that when these deals go a little sideways, people would call and I could help the board and the CEO kind of manage through some of that stuff. So…
It felt like it had a lot of value for me and. And not just monetarily, but also just being able to give back and make sure other people don't freak out. Because it can be tough.
Yeah. Isn't it annoying that it's. You. You got to go through hell to. To get all that value on the.
Other side, you know, like. Yes. And. Right. I'm on the other side of it. If you caught me back then, I probably would have been saying a little bit of woe was me and all that.
But I Think looking back, like every entrepreneur I've ever worked with has something in their journey that they're going to grow from and they're. Everyone's got this, like, you know, hero's journey they have to go through. And, and that was just part of mine.
But I think that's what this thing's all about. Right. Like, you don't, you don't get out of it without paying a cost. There's going to be something, time, family, other aspirations, whatever.
You're gonna have to pay a cost to lead. And you know, hopefully on the other side, it's worth it. But usually it's never the money that's the, like, the money's nice, don't get me wrong.
But usually it's. It's these intangibles that allowed you to allow you to do other things with your life. Sorry, I got a little preacher there.
Not. No, not at all. I just have a couple more things I. To follow up all of that with. First. Do you know Jason Jackson at Foodaloofa?
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