John Block
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think a lot about is that the core values that we look to put in place at Unity and in our businesses, these values of ownership culture I talked about, we look to test those and understand are the people that we're sitting across from, do they espouse those values?
And again, communication.
How do people talk?
And you can ask them how they communicate with their teams today.
And you learn a lot by that answer, by how a leader communicates with their team.
We learn a lot about, are they high communicators internally with their businesses coming in?
And that's important for us because it's one of our pillars of ownership culture.
That then cascades down to transparency.
What do people tell you in the first meeting, the second meeting, the third meeting?
Ultimately, with more time with people, you're going to learn a lot.
And you hate to find out that people were trying to pull the wool over your eyes.
And that stuff usually comes out.
And, you know, I don't have a lot of patience for people that aren't transparent.
And so that's something that we try to test.
And that's hard to always test in your first meeting.
But we don't partner with someone after one meeting.