Kevin Tawil

You had Irv and you had Joel Peterson and Bob Oster, Bill Egan and David Dodson.

Four of them were operators, managers.

Bill Manley, an investor, but all with tremendous experience and were there willing to support us and give us advice at every turn.

More of an advisory board versus a governance board.

And so we had them to call on, which was helpful.

And yeah, I recall the first few months were a lot of asking questions.

A lot of just observing, what do you do?

Trying to understand the business.

That was number one.

And really getting to know the managers.

We, importantly, I thought we wanted to follow the money.

How does this really work?

Are people really paying us?

Are we really sending out checks?

So we would literally sign...

Every check.

And because our business was roadside assistance, where we would send a tow truck in some town out to support or help one of our customers, they would send us an invoice and we would pay thousands of $50 checks to them.

We'd have to sign them.

You guys signed all the checks, thousands of checks.

How long did you guys do that for?