Nathan Barry

Thank you.

And so in that time that I took the bite, I implemented the feedback from the book.

Salary negotiation is a skill, basically.

I moved up a little bit in the ladder.

But really, it came down to the fact that I had the worst timed bite.

And that pause ended up making me an extra $10,000.

You know, I always said, I'm not going to sell this company because I love what I'm doing.

I love the community that I'm serving, all of that.

And then that's easy to say when it's offers from private equity or they're not that compelling.

But Spotify is a big brand saying, hey, we're interested in buying you.

We'd love to talk.

Here's 200 million is kind of the number we're thinking about.

That was really compelling.

And so I had to actually like go sit down and journal on it and say, all right, do I want to do this?

You know?

And really, I thought about, okay, what would I do with $200 million?

Because I haven't raised any outside capital.

I still own 85% of the business.

Yeah, it's a lot.

And so in that, I really realized that I was going to go back and do the exact same thing.