David Royce

And then Terminex calls me and says, hey, do you want to sell this company?

I'm like, yeah, we could use more cash to grow even faster.

I might not even have a choice but to sell this company.

Say more.

No, it's just like the first one I sold for Forbes said I sold it for $13 million.

I have NDAs, so I can't say, but Forbes says $13 million.

So it's like I've got millions of dollars now to spend on the next company.

And then I sold EcoFirst for tens of millions, according to Forbes.

Mm-hmm.

And so it's like, all right, now I can just ramp up.

And then it was like, let's do some really cool shit.

Like let's get a head company headquarters with like a NBA basketball court, golf simulator.

So it begins.

You know, like all this really fun stuff because I was watching companies in pest control and it's just very boring.

It wasn't exciting.

Sure.

And I knew as we were ramping up, it was going to be harder and harder to recruit the right talent.

Was this during the Google era where everyone's like, you need a slide?

Yes.

Yeah.