Jeff Grant
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I said, what are you talking about?
And he said, no, but I get a good feeling.
I said, no, you don't hire a general counsel on a good feeling.
And he said, okay, you're going to have to go through a bunch of interviews with all of my senior staff and everything.
But at the end of the day, I make the decisions and I'm telling you that I want you to be my new general counsel.
So I wake up the next morning and I figure like, look, I was drunk, right?
Like whatever, you know, I'm just go to work.
But I get a phone call from someone in his office who said, no, do you want to come in to the series of interviews?
And three weeks later, I'm his general counsel.
Oh, well, this is a, there was a. We need to know, like, are you jumping into the fire?
Oh, no.
Well, there was definitely a fire.
Okay.
There was definitely a fire.
But the client, the guy who had now hired me, he didn't appreciate how big the fire was going to be.
Because what had happened, what happened about a year later was that there was a full FBI raid and 100 agents, and they took away every one of their files.
I mean, imagine taking 20,000 tenant files and... But...
I was there ahead of that, and I hadn't been there for the problems.
I was now a problem solver.
There was...