How big of a business do you want to operate? What type of business do you want to operate? Are you more of a consumer oriented or a manufacturing oriented or you like services or you like software or any of those?
Acquiring Minds
Taking a Single-City Acquisition Nationwide
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You know, do you want mentors sort of at your fingertips. Are you okay by yourself? Do you want seven employees or do you want seven 70 or 700 employees, et cetera?
Like, these are deeply personal decisions that someone has to make about themselves and their path forward. And that to me, better informs, which is right for them than, you know, only focusing on, oh, someone had this great outcome. You know, that's the path for me.
And maybe that's a good, maybe that's a good reason for them or why they choose that. But, you know, those decisions, those answers to those questions are going to help guide you on, hey, do I want to do it self funded or do I want to do a hybrid, or do I want to do traditional or do I want to do accelerator or do I want to do none of those?
You know, and sometimes doing none of them and staying at whatever your current role is, at whatever company is the right outcome for you, and that's okay. So.
And how old are you now, Edward?
I am one of my 38. 38 years old. 38.
And so what do you think is next for you?
So, yeah, after deep reflection, it's buying a business in Virginia. That's really where we are. So I've.
According to what model?
According to what model? That's great. That's a great question. So I've, I've really lined up different structures on how I would get called the SBA size company across the finish line and closed.
How I would do, you know, call it more the 2,35-million EBITDA type company across the finish line and closed. I'm open to operating. I'm also open to really being the chair of the board.
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