David Royce

I remember, I think Eclipse sold off during that time and they kind of went out.

Whereas like we took all that money and like ramped up, you know, into four locations immediately and then into eight and then into 12.

And so we expanded really, really quickly.

And

pest control in general is very resilient.

The joke is that the bugs don't read the Wall Street Journal.

There's always bugs.

So yeah, it was very consistent.

And when we sold EcoFirst, we were in nine different states west of the Mississippi.

We kind of learned how to run a regional business.

Then it was like, what else can we do if we had tens of millions of dollars to expand?

And so kind of same thing.

We just kept expanding, expanding with Altera.

That was the third company.

No, it was all self-funded.

I was really intent on making sure we had the control to do what we wanted.

Yeah.

Especially like Altera, we went out and got our huge headquarters with the NCAA basketball court and a movie room and golf simulator, ping pong, foosball, that kind of stuff.

Altera.

Yeah.