Reward for 17-Month Deal: $1.8m of EBITDA

My mom was like deployed within, you know, within three weeks after that and she was gone for like nine months. So you know, I kind of lived that myself as a child. And so yeah, I got really excited at that opportunity to kind of like give back to them.

And then also, you know, my dad being a veteran as well, it just kind of made a lot of sense. But I really like the diversification and the types of people that you can help. And so it was, yeah, a no brainer for me.

In most situations it's still urgent, but you know, I really like that level of responsibility also.

Yeah, great. Well and then the other obvious thing that's gone unsaid, but is obvious is the tailwinds here. It's a. Demographics favor this industry in a big way. So.

Yeah, and then a lot of people casually mention that at the conference. And then I think, you know, I was out of school at the time, so I got like one of the individuals who were like a year younger than me, got their login information for Carnegie Mellon and got downloaded to IBIS World Report to get like that whole database or whatever. And then, yeah, studied that.

And then once I saw like, you know, 8.5% compound annual growth rate through 2033, I was sold. I didn't need to see anything else because I thought it was incredibly important to align myself with an industry. So many people say that and I don't think people really understand like the gravity of it.

Like, you know, you could be really smart or average or, you know, me slightly. I think I'm like slightly above average. I really do think that.

But I just try and position myself right in the best way possible. And so being in like a current that's just already flowing right, I think I'm slightly above average. So maybe I can get 10% compound annual growth rate on top of that versus picking an industry that's much tougher.

3%. You know what I mean? And it's just like I just really wanted. I was hyper focused on setting myself up for success because I do need it like a buffer time before I became what I would consider like an expert in everything.

And then again, it goes back to the conference I went to. You know, Robert, and those guys are like wicked smart and I have a lot of respect for them. And I was like, okay, if they're doing it, I could probably do like a smaller version, not necessarily pillar health group, but just like for one company for me. And so I was, I was pretty sold.

So that's great, Robert. You're making the audience all want to go to this conference and buy some businesses. Well, we're gonna, as I said, we're going to keep returning to this theme of the, the industry itself.