Kevin Tawil
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But we were always looking to the other for advice.
Hey, I'm thinking about doing this.
What do you think?
Can I get your input on this?
There's a lot of energy in that and excitement.
And well, I got to make the decision in the areas of my responsibility and the same for Jim.
We wanted the other to be involved and engage with it.
strategic matters, Jim and I would come together and make the decision together.
And there may have been three instances in our whole time together where we disagreed.
And then we're like, okay, we've got two co-CEOs.
How do we handle that?
Well, we would pick a board member.
It was usually Irv.
And Jim and I would either eat face-to-face or on the phone with Irv.
And we're actually pretty good about this.
I would defend Jim's position and Jim would defend my position.
And
And we didn't want Irv to know who felt what.
And inevitably, in every case, instead of picking A or B, Irv had a third alternative that was so much better.
It was fun.