Matt Griffin

A store on that corner.

And then I go back and I have a billboard and the store and that street kept getting cleaner and cleaner.

And then service members didn't have to patrol there.

So I think if we were to do those things in those countries, we would fund education, small business loans and limit the barriers to trade.

It is completely correct.

And we say our flip flops are bad for running, worse for fighting.

If you get it, you get it.

Yeah.

No.

I mean, if you really say it out loud, we're a bunch of first-time entrepreneurs traveling to Afghanistan and make flip-flops in a combat boot factory.

And when you say it out loud, it sounds kind of silly and crazy.

And so nobody would actually fund us to do it.

So it was on us to do it.

And so I virtually sold everything I owned, my motorcycles, my cars, my motorhome boat, anything that I had, I sold to fund production of prototypes and samples.

And then we

built a website, we showed people the product lines, we networked it on social, and then we took pre orders and use that cash to fund production.

And we just kept rolling it over and over.

So for the first three years of our business, we were completely cash based pre ordered business.

Yeah.

But I mean, before our first sale, you know, it was just a matter of buying tooling and getting some DHL bills and making some prototypes in Asia and getting the photos taken.