Jesse Cole

Or we just didn't know any better.

I mean, we started as kids running baseball teams.

And, you know, we didn't know.

There was no, like, blueprint for us.

We just knew we didn't want to work the same way as everyone else was doing.

And so you mentioned earlier in the introduction, yeah, Walt Disney, you know, he studied and Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

Yes, they all had funding.

But, like, we were such a small little, you know, startup that, like, we didn't even think about it.

We just needed our fans to buy tickets.

And so we learned how to do it with nothing.

When our first year, we only sold a handful of tickets when we started, we had to sell our house, empty out our savings account.

We were sleeping on our bed and struggling, but we learned how to make ends meet with very little.

So we didn't need all this extra support.

And so if we can figure out how to do it with very little, even as we grow, we're trying to do the same thing.

And that's what we've been able to do.

Yeah, well, 100%.

Well, think about this and what we've learned.

When Walt Disney, when he lost control, he lost control of his first character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

He lost control of the distribution rights.

He lost control.