Timing is Everything: Buying a $30m Tutoring Business

And had you ever received emails like that day from private equity or anyone?

Yeah, but nothing too significant or. I, I guess I honestly don't exactly remember. I hadn't really, like, engaged with any of them and.

But these guys felt more serious. This email.

I think it's just the timing, honestly. I don't know if they were more serious or not. It was just like, oh, like, you know, I.

I'm starting to like, actually think about doing this. So let me use this as practice. I mean, that was my mentality at the time.

So if it had been anybody else at that time that did not appear, like, I. I don't even know how to describe what I felt as low level, but then I was like, okay, sure. I probably would have taken it just, Just for the reps, if that kind of makes sense.

That's what we always hear, is that just catching the seller right at the right time is. Is.

Is.

Is kind of what it's all about.

Yeah, yeah. And like, it probably was even pre write time, but, like, I've come to learn that I really like getting like, down and dirty with the details and so of like almost anything. And so I'm like, great. Like, I'm just gonna like, try to like, learn what the mentalities are and start to like, you know, just get experience with this.

That was my, My, My thinking. So anyway, so they you know, we had a call, blah, blah, and I was looking at their website and like, I didn't know what search for fund was at the time and like, they were kind of explaining it to me. And you know, I, I personally don't like all of the, or I don't feel spoken to by like half of the search fund websites that are like, carrying on your legacy, like,…