Irv Grossbeck

I remember in my infinite wisdom saying to Kevin before they closed, are you sure you want to be in business with this guy?

He was a dangerous cocktail of smart and nasty to my eye.

Not overtly nasty, but just sharp.

Smart as a whip, though, and just not the kind of director they had.

And he and his CFO were going to join Asurion as board members.

And he said, Kevin, you should obviously do what you want to do.

I'm just wondering...

these people are really tough apples kevin said i know we'll just have to live with them and of course that was a great decision i'm not sure what decision i would have made but i did have reservations having dealt with the guy over a period of a few months as i remember

I remember last minute demands.

I didn't remember what they were.

I do remember one

funny story about them, which is the first board meeting that they came to at Asurion.

I try to be early to meetings, but it seems to me this meeting, I was maybe barely on time or a minute or two late or something.

And here were all the legacy Ershurian board members sitting on one side and both ends of a table, big oval table.

And here were these two guys over on the side by themselves, kind of getting settled in their chairs.

And I walked in and...

I thought, oh, this is really awkward.

So I asked them if I could sit between them.

I did.

And I just felt that there was a chill to begin with in the very first board meeting, which we really didn't want.