How to Buy a Generational Brand with $20m in Sales

Just it's a very personal story and.

I tried to draw the main family business connection and the more personal an email is, the more likely you know, some somebody's going to respond to it. And who in the family did would you send this email to?

He was Tom's son Aaron at the time and he had run the business for a while and then was in a board chair role. It's okay.

Okay, great.

And at Chenmark as a GVP or effective GVP as you were. So does that means that you also search or there's the expectation that you're eventually going to be the actual the one to do a search and find a business to bring into Chenmark. Say more about that.

So the, the leadership development program, our GVP program has three stages. Your first stage you'll come in to what I'll say is hq, which makes it sound bigger and fancier than it is, but that's either in Portland or now we have a regional office in Nashville.

And so you'll spend, I don't know, call it six months to a year.

And these are sort of rough timelines. But in stage one where you'll both.

Do some search activities so connecting with.

Small business owners, brokers, you know, sort of adjacent accountants, lawyers, etc, sharing the Chenmark story and, and you'll also do.

Consulting projects for any, any one of.