Justin Ishbia

Not that you don't like your work buddies.

I like them a whole bunch.

It's just that my high school buddies have a little special place in my heart.

And so leading a deal, negotiating a deal, working with a founder, recruiting a CEO,

I do less of that.

That's coming to the very end of it.

But no, I do miss one of the best questions I think that an LP has ever asked me.

And if I was an LP, I'd ask people the same question.

Do you think you're a better investor or a better manager and why?

And I think, at least for me,

The right answer for short capital is I have to be a manager.

I love investing.

I love buying companies.

But to create what we want to create and build our system grow, we want our system to grow.

It's a manager.

You're a leader of people.

You're a management system and processes and create.

increases the likelihood of success of many things at once, as opposed to having a very effective lead in one deal.

But that is not going to create the same value for our investors and for our team members.

And so I think it's my job to create an environment of kind of see one, do one, teach one, and let our best people do things that they've seen done before.