Dave Mortensen

Chuck is a person, you put him in a flourishing market, he's going to make it even better.

That's what he's really good at.

I am the guy to look at something that is not working and dive in deep and figure it out and fix it and bring it to that good to get it to great.

Chuck is typically going to stay above the fray.

I'm going to be in the deep of the fray and where we balance each other.

There's days I got to look at Chuck and say, hey, buddy, get out of the clouds a little bit and let's get to work here.

We got to dive into some of the work we're doing versus create new stuff to do.

And there's times where he'll be the guy to look at me and say, Dave, get out of the way of the team and allow them to continue to do what they're doing because you're scaring the hell out of them.

Chuck is the first three innings.

I'm the second three innings.

And then we hire really smart people to finish the last three innings.

You know, there are a lot of different things we did.

So look at 2008.

2008 and 2009 is when we made one of our first major pivotal decisions.

When you think about pivoting, we had a third partner.

And at that time, Anytime Fitness probably had about

We were probably at about 600 clubs open at that time, and we knew we were onto something special.

But Chuck and I, we both looked at each other and wanted to reinvest back into that business because we knew we were a part of something that was bigger than ourselves.

And our third partner...

albeit was in it for one reason.