Nathan Berry

And if you turn around and look behind you, you see Death Valley, which is the lowest point.

And it's just this crazy place.

And so then I thought, okay, one, Brent and Ryan and their other partner, John,

just have this great idea for what they're going to do with it.

And I was like, can you imagine the mastermind groups and the like mini conferences and the writers retreats and whatever else that you can have, like the stories and memories that you can make at a place like this.

And so, yeah, I had to, had to get involved.

Yeah, some of that has happened.

The property has taken a lot longer, I think, than we originally had thought to get it up and running and get it to the point where groups can stay there.

So I've actually only been there twice and just taking my family down.

So we haven't yet had a big gathering because there were things like had to get running water, had to get...

you know get it livable again and um and then there were some big setbacks in there like this summer uh there was a fire caused by you know some really old electrical that burned down the hotel there that it was on its 149th anniversary of opening that the hotel burned down so it's kind of like anything in entrepreneurship where

you have these great grand dreams and then it's way, it turns out it's way harder than you thought.

And then just when it's really hard, then like there's this crazy setback of like the coolest building in the whole town getting burned down.

Or I don't know the equivalent from like you're in my businesses would be like when you like lose that customer that you fought so hard to get, or like that was that stretch thing.

I think that, so our very first team retreat, um,

Let me set the stage.

So January 2016, the previous 12 months, we'd grown from 2,000 in MRR to 100,000 in MRR.

So just crazy growth.

We had no money in the bank.

We were thinking, should we raise money?