David Grutman

You should always build a company that a public company could always buy.

It's not mom and pop time anymore.

A business that's not run properly or set up properly for an exit is probably not running well anyway.

That's how you gain real wealth.

Try to find deals where you have equity and not just a fee.

I've had many moments in my life where I could have gone left or right and I decided to just say, let's just keep going forward.

We try to create ecosystems where they all feed each other.

By having that in one property, it lets us hyper focus on the guests.

They don't see me as just a restaurateur or just a nightclub owner.

They see me as an entrepreneurial that's going to help them with their lives.

I'm very protective over people and I send them my deal flow.

You're adding value to people's lives.

That's a coupon that's going to come back.

The one thing they don't really talk about with you in college, how important it is and what it means to own an IP.

I also won't do a deal with somebody if I don't own the IP as part of it.

I'm doing great.

Thanks for having me, by the way.

Thank you, Mick.

You know, as soon as I accomplish something, I want to try to take something else on.

Again, I have very high ADD.