Shaan Puri

So the reason I wanted to share this is because

99% of people talking about their experience as buying and running businesses, the selection effect is the people who are failing, shut up.

And the people who are succeeding get real loud.

And I think what's cool about you is that you can give it and you could take it.

And so like you are bold and you say what you mean, you say what you feel, you're not afraid to be wrong.

And if you're wrong, you say I was wrong.

And I really love that about you.

I really respect that about you.

I think that's actually quite rare.

And in this case, like, you know, you're basically saying, hey, I went and did this deal.

And then like, here's a bunch of things that immediately I did wrong or went wrong for me.

And I had to like, you know, figure out how to do better.

And I think that's actually like quite admirable.

The second part of it is,

There's something that in sports they call new owner syndrome, which is anytime a sports owner buys a team, they immediately start changing everything.

And they're like, oh, I can do no wrong.

I know how to fix this.

I'm going to do all these great things in year one.

And one of the things that I think is actually pretty interesting here is

Even though we run this global talent company and we were finding talent all over the globe, we were mostly finding kind of junior and mid-level talent.