Was it just you? So I, you know, married, my wife was pregnant with our first child, my, my older daughter and we, so 2018, we bought the company, moved across the country, bought a house, had a baby. It was like, it was a lot, I'm not gonna lie. And, and you know what I didn't maybe touch upon before is I had never.
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Let's Just call formally supervised an individual, an employee in my career to that point. And Now I have 80, you know, a team of 80 that, that I'm in charge of. So it was a wild. It was a wild year. It's fun in so many ways.
Well, well, that's interesting, Edward. We hadn't actually talked about that in our pre calls that you had what. How did you put it? Formally supervised, otherwise known as managed.
Yeah, that's correct.
Otherwise you had never managed a soul.
No, no. You know, some summer interns, that type of thing as an engineer, but that. That's it. No.
Okay.
I was a design engineer, you know, certainly project manage, work with teams, interact with plenty of people. You know, I was like, you know, head of a club Baja racing team at uva, where I was like one of the top two people. You know, I had certainly done some leading in the past on many levels, but never, you know, never formally managed another.
Well, I want to hear more about that before we do. Is there anything to say about the trans. The immediate transition, day one, or should we just hop into your tenure as an operator and.
Yeah, I mean, I would say day one, I was very pleasantly surprised at the reception and, and I think it just speaks to the, the people and the individuals and the industry and the company. Day one. But it was, hey, seller, we do a big all company meeting. He was the founder of the company.
He introduced me as the new owner and there was, you know, kind of the shock and awe. But it was an asset sale and we, we went through, you know, offer letters and sort of the mechanics you have to do. And it took very little time.
I'm talking less than a half an hour and everyone's back out the door taking care of plants. It's, you know, it. We did a good job of talking about the, you know, we'll call it the what's in it for me thing, you know, describing benefits and they're not changing, your manager's not changing, you know, et cetera, et cetera. But, you know, credit to everyone at the company and candidly, the founder…
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