Michael Woolhouse

It's always been important to me to work with a group of people that I like and that we can have fun with, that we can disagree without being disagreeable and get to the best decision.

I've worked in places over the years where that's been super true and that's super true here.

And I don't know about you, but I've only ever learned through making mistakes.

So I've had experiences where that hasn't been true.

So that's the first thing.

Personally, that's the kind of place I want to be, the kind of people I want to work with, the kind of culture I want to be part of.

It gets me enthusiastic getting out of the bed every morning and going after whatever the thing is.

And in this case, building this business, which...

has the genesis from the roots of the secondaries market, but has required the investment acumen, the skill of a private equity business is the thing that we're doing.

So I find if you can put those two things together in tandem, it's fun.

Good things can happen and you can be successful.

I love that.

And when you build something new from scratch, as we've done here, it's hard.

Not everything works out the way that you think it's going to work.

You get surprised every day by things and you have to sort of

embrace that.

You have to enjoy learning.

You have to enjoy adapting and be enthusiastic about it.

Like this is, you know, I've had a number of, you know, jobs over the years and I kind of work, I use that word intentionally.

I think a different point, I did have jobs and at a couple of points I had things I really looked at as careers and I feel fortunate to