Q How many businesses did you go through before you cracked the ten million in one of them?
A My first business, uh, cracked the ten million after 11 plus years and So the funny, that's a great question, Sean, because the funny thing was is, um, I scaled my second business to ten million plus in approximately two and a half years. You know, they had started with a couple hundred grand in revenue when I acquired it, and totally transformed it, built a leadership team, but it took me so long to, to get through, really to understand how to run a business, to be honest, um, and how to, how to run its, um, In a way that is smooth and, and all the people are, um, really communicating on, on a higher level. So, so once I understood how to actually run a business, um, and I got through all my own inadequacies and how to run it, run that business, it really didn't take long and it shouldn't take long for everything. Now that second business, yeah, I scaled it to ten million in two and a half years. There was some market timing that definitely helped us out and was favorable to us. But had, had I not put those systems in place that I learned from my first business, um, the people systems, the structural systems, the financial systems, all the various components of a business, there's no way we could have scaled to ten million in that two and a half years. So, um, if I were to start another business, I'd say I could probably do it in well under five, and this is bootstrapping with…
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