Mike Zani

I had no money when I started the company.

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

Yeah, I'd love to.

It was a fantastically romantic life.

But if you wanted to have kids or a family, it was not that cup of tea.

What did your day look like?

It was 330 days a year on the road.

A lot of time spent in a rigid hull inflatable boat flying around chasing sailboats.

You actually learn a tremendous amount from coaching sailing and high-performance sailing about people.

You can find one bad egg on a boat can destroy a team spirit.

You know, someone who questions your strategy at every turn, someone who's negative.

And you just have to get those elements off the team.

And that was something that...

you know, you didn't learn in business school, but you certainly learned in competitive sailboat racing.

We're probably not going to go there.

You know, it's interesting.

So my business partner and I have purchased and taken over four sort of used companies.

And oftentimes, a lot of the team that we acquire

does not make that transition.

It doesn't make the transition from the original founding family, where it was in a slower growth, sort of plotting cash flow mode, into a much faster growth mode where we're really trying to grow the top line and change things.