Brian Smith
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yeah, that from his perspective is exactly how he saw it.
But me being a naive, you know, businessman, I was looking at, oh, he's so lucky I'm bringing in three new partners to my business.
Yeah, Paul.
And another guy, Joe, who was the closeout guy.
In their minds, yes.
And I was this sort of impediment that came along with it.
No, no, no.
We set up a new corporation.
And in my mind, we were all going to own the company 25% each.
And what were they bringing to this?
Cash?
They were bringing in cash, the ability to buy more product.
We also moved the entire operation up to their warehouse in Anaheim.
And I was not going to be involved in the day-to-day operations anymore.
I was going to be the salesman.
And by now, I loved sales.
I was just an incredible Ugg boot salesman.
And so I was going on the road full time and making, I was not on salary, I was going to make a commission on sales.
And they were going to do all of the operations.
So their 75% was overheads and running the company.