$20m Net Worth After 25 Years Buying Businesses

That is true. It, it's actually ignorance is in getting into this is actually kind of good.

Yeah.

Jump off the bridge. I say that a lot. Just jump off the bridge and move forward.

Well, Paul, one of the themes from our pre call that struck me was you are a big advocate, as we just heard, a big advocate of this path of kind of burning the boats and jumping off. But you're, you're not somebody who's overselling that. This is the path to riches, as we're about to hear.

Your years in that first business were, your early years were very difficult. You would say to anybody that this path is very difficult, requires sacrifice. So you are both a full throated advocate of the path, but also somebody who doesn't shy away from saying just how hard it is.

Usually it's kind of one or the other. I hear from people.

It, it is definitely without a doubt. I think it's, it's a path to generational wealth. But you've got to know what you're doing.

It's not easy. And this is your baby. You take it home at night. There's a lot of sleepless nights and, and pinching pennies and wanting to know where the money's going to come from for the, for the next payroll in the first couple years.

And yeah, it's super Scary without a doubt. And highly recommend seeking out mentors and people that have done it before. Get around the right people, right, because I think that's super important.

Something that I didn't do for probably about 15 years and it slowed my learning curve down drastically. I think I finally got myself around like minded individuals probably in my early 40s and that just changed my trajectory of everything. Great.

Well, we'll return to that theme. So let's hear now about the, this, this business. What did you find that you bought?