Kirsten Corson
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So it was a reasonable size acquisition for us at that time.
But, yeah, just the scalability of it was huge.
We've got an underwriting license.
And yeah, we've got a lot of branches.
We've got 38 branches now.
There's a bit of everything.
I mean, we sell a lot of cars.
We sell over 100 cars a week.
Sorry, a day, not a week.
Sometimes 1,000 cars a week.
Our average margin would be somewhere from sort of $700 to $1,000.
Yes, correct.
I'd say most people do.
The ones we finance direct are about a third of what we sell, but they go and finance it through their banks.
I got approached by a guy called Grant McDonald, who had helped Liam out.
He managed him in the early days and helped him out financially and mentored him.
And he approached me and said, you know, I've got this young guy who's really good.
We want to send him to Australia, but we can't afford the airfares.
And would you pay?