Matthew Ridge

So when I came back, like, sort of four or five months later, I can't believe it was still alive.

Like...

we were like it was just a disgrace we couldn't believe we still had customers but anyway I jumped back into it fired everybody and just started working because I was clean I just literally just cleaned the whole place out and started again um

And we were just building back up to the number, getting close to the numbers that we were doing.

It's a successful business.

It's a good business.

But it's a hard business.

It's not like you just, hey.

Phone it in.

Yeah, yeah.

So I, and then the financial crisis hit.

And, mate, when that hit, holy, it was like the, like just, and I was just getting it back, you know, just getting reputation back, just getting revenue coming up to what it used to be.

We were looking okay.

had heaps of debt, and then bang, like just whoosh, like it just fell off the cliff.

And that was real tough.

So I worked every day pretty much for two years, pretty much every day for two years, and couldn't pay GST, you know, like because you had debt.

I had mad debt, so I could pay the bank.

I couldn't pay GST.

I filed GST, and then I just wouldn't, you know, you'd worry about that when it came to it.

Obviously, I paid all that off as well, but...