Adam Knapp

If you, if you, if you have, you know, you've got to make yourself relevant and that means, you know, raising more money to actually fund that work you can do that a number of different ways.

You can actually, I mean, I've like a few years, a few years back, Adam Knapp was head of the Baton Rouge area chamber of commerce in Louisiana.

Right.

And, um, we actually looked at.

And I had not met the governor.

I had worked on his campaign, but I did know from all of our mutual friends and interests that his intention was to blow up any system inside of state government that wasn't producing the outcomes that Louisiana deserved.

And because of some work I had done with GNO Inc., I was the chairman of the board there, I knew certainly the economic development world in Louisiana, both from what we were producing and even how we were functioning, was not working in a way Louisiana deserved.

So the governor offered me the opportunity, and I took it for one fundamental reason.

And then the second piece, and it's all part of that same conversation, is that we all as Louisianians have a responsibility to carry that narrative in an authentic way, right? This isn't about propaganda or being inauthentic, but this is a great state.

that has incredible assets and incredible people and now incredible opportunity.

And so when we get on a plane or when we're talking to our friends who live someplace else, everyone is Louisiana and has a responsibility to carry that part of the message as well.

Gordy, when there's great success in any organization, there are a lot of moving parts and a lot of people and things that play a critical role in that.