Scott Trench

And of course, I get an equivalent to equity at that point.

There's a whole bunch of ways to structure it.

I got an equivalency to that.

That was based on the valuation of the business at that point.

And I was like, I love this company.

I love what I'm doing.

I love the mission.

And someone's going to buy it.

I don't know who it's going to be.

But whoever it is, I don't think I'm going to be able to fool them.

I'm this 27-year-old kid.

I have to do whatever I can to become a quality president or CEO candidate for this new company because I don't want someone else to lead the business.

I want to do it.

And so I just threw myself into it for that entire year to that effect.

And I guess I did a good enough job to get a crack at it where certainly a mentor, a boss was brought in as chairman of the board.

But I was able to get that opportunity to lead the company at that point for the next five, six years.

I always had in the back of my mind, financial freedom was the overall goal.

And then along the way, I fell in love with the mission of the business.

And so I think that underlying all of what you're hearing here was a very intentional goal setting and time management process that governed everything around this, right?

I've always been very intentional about, I have this little stupid journal