Ryan Hanley

And I know you also have a venture fund, so you're very familiar with this entire game, bought businesses, et cetera.

So if I'm listening to this and I'm saying, you know what?

I've always wanted to go off on my own, but I've never had that idea.

That's been maybe a big blocker.

I just didn't feel like I had that original idea to start.

But geez, I...

Man, I'd love to own a plumbing business.

My dad was a plumber.

I used to help him.

And I get that like in this AI world, these types of physical human businesses are going to have real traction.

How do you start to go about that process?

How do you evaluate your opportunities?

How do you think about purchasing an already existing business if you've never done it before?

I actually just signed my very first traditional book publishing deal two weeks ago.

And it's around this concept that I call easy mode, which is essentially that thing that you do that looks like cheating to everyone else.

right?

What is that thing for you?

And then how do we build your life around that idea?

Not, you know, how do we use AI outsourcing or automation, et cetera, or just simply removing something from your life to get you more into the thing that is your easy mode and out of these transactional zero value tasks that, you know, were part of the job and took us away from that thing, which could be twisting a wrench, right?

You might just love being under a sink under, you know, in the basement, fixing pipes, you know, you just what you enjoy doing.