David Peterson

Because I had just taken over.

So my predecessor, when the first transaction happened, my predecessor, I think, got some cold feet about what was going to happen with a new company, right?

I saw that opportunity and I jumped at it.

And... And...

i was scared and it could have gone horribly wrong because you know we couldn't even get it homes for all we had the the phones keep ringing and i think that's when when the you know the affiliate marketers really found their stride right around that time so it's this perfect storm of all of the right circumstances and and so covid to me was that supercharged my entire career and made me look like an absolute hero and then

And then reality sets in, right?

And so I think most of us at our company and our sister companies, we're just in the right place where we weren't taking that for granted.

And we were trying to, you know, 30% year over year growth, but we're still trying to work the infrastructure and make sure that that doesn't get left behind.

And I think that was, we found a good formula, but a lot of,

My sales team, I've lost a fair amount of my sales team that were rock stars during that time.

Why?

Because they weren't actually as good as they thought they were.

So going back to this,

There is, I believe you can love working if it gives you a purpose.

Right.

And so, so mine, I didn't even realize this right away because I would just lean into the fact that I'm greedy.

I want money.

I come from abject poverty.

We moved around all the time, single mother, um,

evicted from section eight housing like that's how like food stamps food pantries i mean that that's how bad it was yeah and and there's plenty of other people that had way worse yeah but that's not an easy start but i think what that did was make me like my passion is is never going back there and so if that means i'm working then i think it does mean i love to work but