Cody Bradstreet

So I'm a certified public accountant by education.

And I had done everything from financing accounting work to outside sales work to project management work.

And I was working at Dell at the time.

Dell is a challenging environment.

Yes.

It just, you know.

It's they just expect a lot out of you.

And they pay you well, but they own a little piece of your soul.

I'm sorry, what's 530?

Yeah, exactly.

So I left Dell really when I opened up my second franchise with The Lice Place.

So the reason I left Dell was to go chase my dreams as an entrepreneur in the lice industry.

So Lais originally was a plan B for me.

I was at Dell.

I was in a business analyst role in an expensive place with no revenue generation and no customer facing.

And they started all those privatization talks.

And I thought, I better have a plan B or I'm going to get laid off.

Well, you know, Dell has large layoffs every year.

So I just was, you know, an expensive resource and I was putting together a layoff list myself.

And I thought...