Rick Jordan
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Exactly.
We all have that a little bit.
I try to live in my own lane.
I do that pretty well.
But at the same time, we all go through it.
I'm excited for you to share a little bit of that.
And I know we'll get into some rosier things.
Just share what that journey has been like the last few years.
I started an I.T.
business 16 years ago now, and I got it to the point where it was doing a few million per year.
And then I had gotten it to a few, meaning like four million per year.
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
And now he does the deal with the McDonald's brothers, a scene in there where he was on a tennis court.
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.
The McDonald's brothers had the speedy system and he was like, I think we can do it better.
And he had people like bumping into each other and then he would rearrange where things were supposed to go.
It was really cool to watch that, especially because I worked at McDonald's.
I was a shift manager when I was 16.
Some of the best sales training to this day.
Do you want fries with that?