Kevin Tawil

And those two candidates were holding out for better offers elsewhere.

I come in on a Friday afternoon.

I interviewed with all three of them.

They made me an offer, I think, that night.

And

I accepted before the other two could accept.

So at least I had my job.

I had my stable $40,000 a year job.

I didn't really know what I was getting into, Will.

It was more of a stopgap.

While I was doing my work, I could think of ideas to start a business.

And it was about that time, because I knew Irv had really been the godfather of the search fund or the mastermind behind it, that I started thinking about the search fund as a plan B if I couldn't find a company to buy.

Yeah, about halfway through my year as a case writer.

I used to say it was the best job I ever had.

Running Asurion is actually a little bit better, but it was fantastic.

I got to work with on average an hour a day with Herb or Jim or Bill.

I'm learning about businesses and management and leadership.

And it was like an intensive experience.

course or almost an intensive third year of MBA, which was better than the other two combined, obviously gave me some time to think about starting a business and gave me some time to reflect on that.

I still wasn't making much progress on that front.