John Block

We're fortunate that we partnered with some awesome people in our past that were willing to support us.

and help provide a base of capital to start with.

We were also fortunate that some people that I had known in my past were excited about partnering together.

So we quickly found a team and started to look for our first investment.

And we spent the first couple of years doing the hard work.

It's not something I don't take for granted that just because you start a firm, I don't know how many firms attempt to get started a year in private equity that don't make it.

It's not a zero failure rate proposition.

I can promise that much.

And so we just went out and put one foot in front of the other every day, try to get a little bit better, try to find another opportunity that made sense, that fit what we were trying to accomplish, bring on another teammate to help us do more faster, at the same time trying to raise money, bring on new LPs while living up to the promises to our existing LPs.

And I think best I can tell, three years into the journey, that's also what I'm going to do tomorrow.

It's all three of those things.

And probably the next day and the next day and the next day.

And I think the second you stop focusing on those things is where you lead your way.

Yeah, maybe I'll start by sharing just a little bit of our strategy.

And I'll start with our why quickly because I think understanding our firm allows you to better understand everything we do, you know, downstream.

We start with our why.

Simon Sinek wrote the book Start With Why.

We love that philosophy, capture the heart, win the audience.

And for us, our why is building better together, those three words.

First, we're building.