Peter Lacaillade

Usually they have some experience at a real firm where they've worked for a couple of years and they learned how to financially model and learn like how transactions work and whatnot.

There's something in them.

They have that bug where they want to be an entrepreneur.

They don't want to go work for some big firm.

This is not like a fallback, like they couldn't get the job at their private equity firm.

So they decided, okay, this is the cool thing to do.

They're very passionate about the strategies that they're pursuing and are really going to run through walls to make it happen.

I think the velocity of acquisitions, the constant getting on planes, going to God knows where to find the next garage door role.

There's this guy who we're backing right now, Jordan Dubin, who is actually literally, he hasn't graduated yet from HBS.

But over the two years,

He has been there.

He has, with two of his former partners at Alcatterton, they have done a garage door, Guild garage door.

It is well north of 30, maybe north of 40 in Ibiza.

The platform.

Yeah.

And we're coming into, he has a new platform he's starting that is in an adjacent area.

So it's very related.

And then a third idea that is also kind of in the same area of, you could see how these things all come together.

just run through walls, just going to work harder than anyone.

He was an athlete.