The Entrepreneur Awakens: Pivoting from Tech to Ownership

So it's an interesting, it's an interesting. Yeah, it's, it's a challenging one, Kin, because even if you are willing to move there and, and what that will do for your active involvement and presence in the business. Yeah, the growth is, is all going to be here.

The growth is going to be on the mainland. So it makes it. That's a tricky one. Did you want to say more?

Now are we in the hybrid model, three days a week at office and all that, it helps so much on building the culture that you want. And I think people are generally like, are more acclimated to kind of like a team culture versus, you know, if everybody, everybody is going to completely remote. I find it just from talking to other agency owners who run that fully remote model.

I think they are having a hard time getting the team members to the set culture that they want to build. So I think anyone who are interested in remote business that should be part of the equation end of the day. I think, really the people, especially for smaller businesses, the people and the quality are very important to help your business succeed.

So unless you're buying a really big business where it matters less anymore, it matters so much on the quality of the team, the quality of all the employees and the culture that they built. So I think they have a good culture in terms of collaboration and high care for the customers and all that. So I intend to carry on that.

And I. I think it's going to be very hard to maintain that if this is like a completely remote setting. So. Yeah. And speaking about the culture, how are you finding yourself blending with the culture? It takes time. I think people on the island, they always will keep in skeptical eyes on someone from the mainland.

The good part is me being an Asian. I think buying a business in like running a business in Hawaii as an Asian is probably like the best state. You could be doing that in America, like, because there's.

So there's such a big Asian population. Yeah. They have like probably like half of the population Asians. So I think that helped me tremendously because I, you know, hey, on my aloha shirts, I'm on the island.

People can tell the difference. At least I brought the bat. Right. So that would help. Okay. And what about your just personal ability as a leader, as a business owner?

For the first time, you've now fully completed this hard pivot from cookie cutter employee to business owner.

How's that feel? It's a. Drinking from a fire hose. Because interesting about buying a business is after. It's a very exhausting process of closing the deal.