Q the two of you are kind of, you know, Marla, as, as the two of you are kind of meeting regularly, at a certain point, do these conversations transition away from, ah, hey, here's what you can do at this private equity firm to help it grow to, hey, like, maybe, maybe we should start our own business together. Do you remember how that, that conversation pivoted into that direction?
A Yeah, um, so Barry would nudge me and say, what are you gonna do, work for this firm your whole life? You know, why don't you go out on your own? You're, they're never gonna put you in charge of your own business, right? Um, because one of the reasons I had joined there was to get closer to being an entrepreneur, closer to running a business. So, I was dissatisfied, and I had someone in front of me saying, hey, you know, go, you should go out on your own. And, you know, I think Being at Consolidation Capital and working in private equity, what I saw when I saw these entrepreneurs, many, many entrepreneurs of companies that we had acquired, was they weren't superhuman. They were just regular people that had struck out on their own, and so I started to feel like I could do that too, and Barry was nudging me, and we were both dissatisfied in the industry we were in.
AI assessment note: “Barry would nudge me and say, what are you gonna do”