Dave Royce

I think you got to live it right in order for people to want to follow it.

But I just save, save, save, because in my mind.

I wanted to graduate debt free.

I wanted to go to MBA school.

I got married towards the end of college.

Believe it or not, I married my college sweetheart.

And yeah, she was going to go to law school.

And so I'm like, I got to save for that.

So I saved up about $300,000 before I graduated, if you can believe that.

And then when I got pitched this idea of, hey, you should go start your own company, that's when I was like, okay, I actually have money right now.

Yeah, I have it saved.

So it's kind of like being prepared for the opportunity to know when to take it.

But as far as investing, for me, it took me a while to invest because I was the bank.

And all the cash I got, I kept thinking, I'm going to throw it into the next one because I don't want to have to go get investors and lose equity on it, and then I can maintain the control.

But yeah, yeah.

And clearly, like investing into like a S&P 500 index or into like a tax loss harvesting vehicle like that, probably the safest thing you can do.

And we've got a lot of guys, too, where, you know, they're all about the Magnificent Seven or just, you know, AI as that's coming up and stuff.

Okay.

It's like that thing on the golf course, right?

You start out and you say, hey, why don't we play each hole for a dollar?