SBA Deal Structuring to Manage Risk in a Cyclical Industry

Right. I mean, one of the things, one of the. The reasons to embark on this journey.

Was that I didn't. As much as I loved our team in Tijuana, Mexico, and Pyongyak, Pyeongtaek, South Korea, in China, I didn't like spending 200 days a year away from home and in those places. So this, you know, this notion that we're going to crush it, and now I'm going to be in Atlanta, Kentucky, Boston, like, what am I playing for? Because I. I know that play. Right. You know, you've got to be…

At least that's the way I was raised in business. That's the way Amphenol taught me how to do it. That's the way I think you got to do it if you're really going to be active and lead it.

And, you know, maybe at that point, you're running the group, but you can't be an absentee. You got to be there with your customers, you got to be there with your teams. I don't know any other way to do it.

Other folks are maybe smarter, more efficient than me, but I don't know how to do it. That's not me. And so is that the life I'm looking for? Maybe. Maybe at a certain point, maybe not.

But, you know, certainly that opportunity may be out there. I think the bigger thing for me is let's just, we're going to grow the business and the rest of it'll sort itself out. You know, how do you do that?

Right. You keep making your customers happier tomorrow than they were yesterday. And maybe that's. You serve more of them, maybe that's you serve them better. But we'll just keep doing that with things that make sense, and the rest of it will sort itself out.

And on the question of lifestyle, the fact that this business is an hour and 15 minutes from where you live, I hear Hagerstown. And I think if that is pretty far away from where you and I live. Yeah. Hour and 15 minutes is.

Is.

Is in fact what it is. How's that working? Are you there every day? What does the. That commute look like?

Yeah, so I'm there every day. I'm incredibly lucky that I go against traffic. If it were the other way around and had to fight traffic every day, this deal would never work.