Eric Cline
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So he says, hey, let me look at your model.
He looked at it, brought a M&A guy in.
They looked at it and they're like, holy smokes, you guys got a cash cow in your hands.
Super profitable.
And they're like, they start talking EBITDA and all this stuff.
And I was like.
what is even going on?
They had private equity firms flying in.
We were going out to dinner and me and my wife literally were like, how the hell did we get at these tables?
Like, is this real?
Are they messing with us?
The whole time, we almost didn't believe what was going on.
And then we started getting offers in.
And the very first offer that came in, we took the five best – the M&A company took the five best offers.
They flew them in.
They looked at our facility in Fort Lauderdale.
So we had offers from $147 million to $92 million for 100% of the business.
And again, I'm like, how the hell –
did we build something like this?
How did we get here?