Justin Ishbia

But I was like, it's meant for me.

I'm not a club bottle service somewhere, and I'm not paying for that for everyone for the long term.

But he follows roles, and he's a culture carrier, and I want to create nodes of culture carriers, people who want to be here.

It's a very high bargain with the vice president, though.

What makes the vice president, I'm basically telling you, I view I'm saying to you, I want you here for a career.

That's what I'm saying to you.

It's my job to create an environment.

They want to be here.

Yeah, so my brother and I are best friends, and we were fortunate enough to become the controlling owners of the Phoenix Suns about a year ago now.

In February, it closed, but we signed the contract in December last year.

First of all, we're stewards of a community asset.

We don't own the team.

You know who owns the team?

The fans.

The X million people who live in Phoenix, that's who owns the team.

And there's a lot of analogies between private equity, investing, and sports, and metrics, and numbers.

But we buy a business.

You know what we did when we partnered with the Phoenix Suns?

Anyone who works there, the first day, Matt and I met with every person.

We had a town hall meeting.