Seth Casden

I don't really measure my success from the output.

I measure it from the input and what I put into it and the sincerity and the integrity of my work and my effort is kind of how I value myself.

And the results are, you know, a little bit to a certain extent out of my control.

Yeah, that's not a perspective I've always had, but it's certainly, as I sit here today, the one I have.

It's something I've wrestled with and think about from time to time, certainly when you're out fundraising.

I think for me, I don't have a predisposition.

I try not to have an expectation and that tends to keep you open to more possibilities.

To the extent somebody else comes along and sees the same value that I see, explore that.

If nobody ever comes along and sees it as valuable as I do, then I'll probably just keep doing it myself.

And, you know, you end up offering friends and family and friends of friends help as the more experience I have and the more value I can offer.

Then I don't know if it'll ever be formalized in a consulting role or not.

But, you know, certainly gathered a lot of a lot of life experience on this journey and a wide variety of experience, you know, supply chain and business development and

globally and the width of products that we make that have our technology and all of the science behind it and the regulatory work.

And there's a lot of different touch points this company has

So, you know, all of that experience just makes makes for a little bit better sense of purpose, I guess, and provides a little more clarity as I get older.

And so far, just reinforce that I'm doing the right thing and feel good about it.

So, you know, try and stay open with the future holds and and take what's in front of me and evaluate it as it comes.

I like the approach.

You know, nobody's come along with this company to offer me a big check that I turned away.

But, you know, in another life, I was doing residential real estate development and we had built a spec home.