Andrew Oleson

Cool.

How do you hire?

Okay.

So this is a, I get this question a lot too.

And I, one of the things that I'm super proud of is that everybody that we employ is 100% US based.

Hell yeah.

If I can.

It's worth it.

And it's, and I'll tell you why.

If I can, I want them in our office.

And the reason for that is because when I, when I first bought PDG, so give you the start of the story.

I was in college.

The owner, the founder of PDG was a professor of mine.

right on and um one day i was going to move to kansas city where we have our second office and try to start up there because i was always competing with the guy always competing and always losing and uh i finally got the guts one day to walk into his office and said you know hey if you want to sell i'm interested in buying and he was kind of like yeah nah you know and i was a 24 year old idiot at the time i'm a 38 year old idiot now i'm a 43 year old idiot there we go there we go

Uh, the next day, the next day I had an offer in my email.

And so for the next year we spent going through it.

And I really was focused that whole year on preparing myself for business.

I had a little business in college, just doing graphic work on the side, but this was the big leaks.

Right.

And, um, I was like numbers, numbers, numbers.