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Rick Jordan

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Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

Exactly.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

We all have that a little bit.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

I try to live in my own lane.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

I do that pretty well.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

But at the same time, we all go through it.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

I'm excited for you to share a little bit of that.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

And I know we'll get into some rosier things.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

Just share what that journey has been like the last few years.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

I started an I.T.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

business 16 years ago now, and I got it to the point where it was doing a few million per year.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

And then I had gotten it to a few, meaning like four million per year.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

four million a year is a lot to a lot of people truly i thought it was a lot to me 15 years ago then in a matter of two year time period i took it from four million to 15 in just two years it was right about that time that we went public and that was through some m&a through some acquisitions because i had built this thing you know the movie the founder with michael keaton one of my favorites ever right and michael keaton is playing the role of ray crock from

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

And now he does the deal with the McDonald's brothers, a scene in there where he was on a tennis court.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

He was taping out masking tape on the tennis court where the different stations were going to go for the kitchen at the McDonald's.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

The McDonald's brothers had the speedy system and he was like, I think we can do it better.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

And he had people like bumping into each other and then he would rearrange where things were supposed to go.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

It was really cool to watch that, especially because I worked at McDonald's.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

I was a shift manager when I was 16.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

Some of the best sales training to this day.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Founder Lessons From Scaling, Going Public, and Rebuilding | Rick Jordan

Do you want fries with that?