Started as SBA Searcher, Built to a PE Fund

Yeah, but you did, you did do it, but you hadn't done it yet. And so I, that's why I asked. I didn't, I didn't know if you might have bumped into a little bit of, of, of.

Hey, Joe, it sounds good on paper, but just get your first deal done.

Happen.

At home, too, if you will.

And what, and were they wrong?

No, I mean, I think.

Did they underestimate your ability? I, I, you know, what you just said about with the skills you brought was actually really interesting that you had, you were practiced years of experience making prescriptions to teams and then motivating them to implement those prescriptions. That is the, that basically that's delegation in a, in a, in a word, or delegation with strategic direction.

And that seems like a great skill set to bring to multiple acquisitions.

Yeah. So were they wrong? I mean, I, I've created a lot of things to do. I was busy. I continue to be busy, but I mean, that first year I did three acquisitions and I didn't do any More for a while I just made sure those were stable and steady. Three acquisitions with three different partner groups, that was a little bit of much.

So had them each running pretty well before I went to the next. To the next step for a number of years before we are in our current iteration. So and I actually it was four acquisitions, but two were in the same.

Were like at the same time into one company. So no, I don't think they were wrong. They didn't all happen on the same day.