David Royce

For kids.

We're constantly talking about exit values and financial forecasts.

Our kids, they just want us home for dinner.

To be fair, so my dad was an executive.

He was a CEO of Motel 6.

And then a private equity group purchased it after I think he was there for about four and a half, five years.

And then they had a disagreement about how they were running things.

And so about six months into that transition, he was out.

And then he thought, I'm going to go try to work for other businesses and kind of take some equity in the different businesses.

But he didn't spread himself around enough businesses, in my opinion.

I think that's what happened.

When you're a kid, they never really tell you everything, right?

Yeah, they're not getting the leads on that.

Yeah.

No.

But all I know is my mom, she really leaned on me around the house because my dad was gone traveling five days a week from fifth grade through almost 12.

And so I just never saw him.

So my mom had to get a job so that we had medical insurance and she's working full time.

She'd wake up at five in the morning, had this brutal schedule where she'd make us lunches, work all day, come home, do the laundry, clean the house.

So we didn't have housekeepers or anything like that.