If you do that, your job is a lot easier running a company, obviously, you know. Well, thanks, Jared. Like, that's, that's great advice.
Acquiring Minds
Timing is Everything: Buying a $30m Tutoring Business
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That's the hard part, obviously. Right. But, you know, that's made my life super. Super. I don't want to say easy, because this is a very difficult job, as I'm sure you and anyone who's been on this, been on the pod, can speak to, but we've had the breathing room to hire a cfo, a coo, data engineer, head of technology.
We have some tremendously smart and talented people. We've done a little bit of relabeling titles, but broadly, the businesses, A, continue to perform beautifully, and B, you know, the people that I've inherited have been awesome.
Dave, one of the things that searchers intend to do when they buy a business is to change that business.
Of course.
Right. That's why they're buying it. And that can be uncomfortable for the, for the sellers to see their, you know, baby changed or just, or, or. Just to see decisions made that they.
Might not agree with. Jared's now 13 months in, you're on the board, you're, you're involved, as Jared has made clear. Has there been any, any discomfort on your part in watching Jared do whatever Jared has done for these last 13 months?
I mean, there's been, like, uncomfortable things, but, like, you know, that's no different than when I was running it. So, yeah, I mean, so there hasn't been anything that Jared's done that I, like, disagree with or I'm uncomfortable with or wish he did differently. You know, as we talked about the other day, like, there are some things that Jared did that I don't have, like, the temperament and…
So I didn't like watching them happen. But, but I also Also understood, like, why it was important and the value of them. But it wasn't like a party.
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