The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q And then I'm, I'm, I'm referring to when you say bought, but a hundred percent ownership, or are you guys doing, um, are you bringing in, are you creating like an SPV where you're bringing in other investors?

A Yeah. So we create a, we're a, we're a hybrid. We have a fund structure, right? With limited partners in it. Uh, the found in, in, in every situation is different. Sometimes we, we talk to business owners that want to sell a hundred percent. Sometimes we talk to business owners that are, that need resources in a team to sort of get to where they want to go. And in Tara was the ladder. We had a, a strong management team, a strong vision, and they needed resources to sort of execute on that big, hairy, audacious goal, right? The world's burning down. We have all this technology. Why isn't being implemented in the field? Right. It was kind of the core idea. And, uh, we brought, uh, you know, new thinking, uh, uh, capital and a strategy to sort of get out there, pound the pavement, sort of link, link this up. So that was, uh, in Tara. The other, uh, companies that we acquire were a hundred percent cash out, which is a little bit different. Usually in that situation, the founder, uh, wants to retire, uh, or it's, it's time, you know, it's, um, some, uh, I think they said somewhere it's been said that on your deathbed, no one has said that they wish they had spent more time at the office, right? So, uh, sometimes it's a little of that, uh, sometimes it's health issues, right? We, we, Uh, and sometimes it's the legacy of the company. How do you pass the baton to a new steward and owne…

AI assessment note: “we're a hybrid. We have a fund structure, right? With limited partners in it.”

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