Kirsten Corson

Come and work with me.

I'm going to build this into a $100 million company.

But Eric was a bit of a follower of Graham Hart, and so he'd started his entrepreneurial journey.

And yeah, when he laid out the opportunity, I just thought, well, I've got to do something.

I was in my mid-30s at that time and thought, if I don't pull a finger now, I never will.

Good on you.

And he'd thought a lot and done a lot of good things, but we definitely needed money.

But we didn't put a huge amount of money into that.

It was a couple of million dollars at the time.

And a couple of million New Zealand dollars, and we ended up selling it.

I mean, I think raising capital is hard in New Zealand.

And when we did the listing of 42 Below, we were roundly criticised for it, said, you know, NZX is not the place for that.

Yeah, but people were saying this is not the way.

and not worry about making a profit, just worrying about making a big company.

Did you know that?

And we got an IM through KPMG, I think.

But just, yeah, we bought that business.

It was quite small.

It was turning, I can't remember the turnover, about $10 million, I think.

And we paid $18 million for it.