John Gafford

And here's why.

Because the extra 20% is just ego anyway.

It's not real.

So if they're doing it at my perceived 80% is good, they're probably 120% better than I was anyway.

They're probably better at it than I was.

Yeah.

How do I reconcile those two things?

We are, you know, plumbing business, nobody cares who shows up to fix the toilet.

They just want it fixed.

Her whole platform is acquiring businesses on seller financing because so many businesses just don't have anybody internally at all that can purchase them or take them over.

And now boomers are retiring like crazy.

And there's all these trades, just different kinds of businesses out there with no succession plan whatsoever.

No thought to it.

Yeah, it's far better than an exit.

Well, no, or what's even worse is you go from having a company to literally having a job for two and a half to three years.

You have to sit in the seat and you're like, why did I do it?

Now I'm an employee of this company and why would I have done this to myself?

I've had a couple of friends that have had some pretty decent exits that involved them staying on as an employee.

And, you know, I like to think that one of the things that makes people great entrepreneurs is the fact that they're chronically unemployable.

And then, yeah.