From €4 Million, to Zero, to €12 Million

Did your family suffer during his bankruptcy? Was this a financially traumatic moment for everybody?

It wasn't only financially traumatic moment. We had strange people from Eastern Europe in black suits arriving at our door. It was really a safety issue.

Thank you for sharing. What of doing this together with your partner, with Corbin, that's husband and wife teams or partnered teams are not so common. Although it does happen.

What was that all about? Or was it just natural? We're going to be partners in life so why not partners in business as well sort of thing?

I think for us it was the only way. I mean when you have two ambitious individuals, it is so hard to find carrier that is fulfilling for both people that places them on the same spot. I mean if it wasn't for running, for running business together, probably you know, I would either stay in New York in finance or maybe I would try to run something on my own in Czech.

Corbyn would be drawn to general management, either in the US or maybe in Africa. It would be so hard to find jobs where we can be in the same town.

Yes. Your enthusiasm for search funds, when you heard about them, was not just the prospect of, you know, buying a business, running it and being able to do that. It also solved this other problem that you were already aware of or foresaw that for two ambitious people it was going to be hard to. Somebody was probably going to be having to compromise on their career path.

What, at any given point, what was that going to look like? This presented a solution very much.

And also marrying an American, I knew that our life will have to be between the countries. Maybe we spend some time in the U.S. sometime in Czech, and we need to be able to live in both countries.

And if we are to live in the Czech Republic for some time, there must be something interesting for both of us to do. And I can't think of any other job than running a company. I mean, maybe we could work for McKinsey or, you know, do consulting for a little bit, but that's, that's not like long term career that either of us.

And, and I assume you're most specifically not talking about Corbin for the years that you were going to spend in Czech Republic. What would he do? Maybe McKinsey. But he's likely to feel stifled professionally in the years that he's in the Czech Republic. Is that what you meant? Or maybe you too?