Ted Elliott
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Yeah, no.
So it was a great financial exit.
And it's really interesting to me how my perspective about business
has changed dramatically from when I was scrapping it with my own company to started off at Capato as a board member and advisor and investor, and then was asked to join the company by the founders and the investors.
So it's a very different journey than last time in my perspective and my approach.
It's just a lot of learnings from
from that last experience.
Yeah.
So that business was growing at 30%.
Um, and you know, it was a multiple that was over three.
It wasn't a great multiple, but because the ownership was 70%, um,
myself, my dad and my sister, uh, it was, uh, it was a good exit.
I think when we sold it, we were doing more like 25.
Yeah.
So two weeks.
So the deal I cut with art was that within two weeks I could leave and never look back.
And so I stuck around at my desk and I would go for these cocktail luncheons at noon and no one would call me and I'd sit at my desk.
And one day one of my friends called me and said, there are these two guys from Spain in town.
They're doing DevOps for Salesforce.
Do you want to come have dinner with us?