Bob Parsons

We knew that we had left some meat on the table.

And the cool thing about Bob Parsons is if Mike and, uh, if Brad and Nico go to Bob, and they say, "We just launched a driver nine months ago.

We now have a head that's 10% more, 15% more or whatever, and we're stoked on it." Like Chip Brewer, Bob Parsons is one of those guys that goes, "Fuck it, let's do it.

Like, go.

Let's go." And a year later they have a new driver.

The FT's pretty small in the US, so if you wanna raise your hand, uh, and do stuff, uh, outside your normal beat, which is me, you know, covering Wall Street and transactions and litigation around deals gone bad, uh, they're happy to let you do it.

So, you know, I wrote an interview of, with, uh, Bob Parsons, the, the golf entrepreneur, who's a very interesting guy.

You know, wrote about, um, Topgolf and eventually, you know, how that was a hot brand that eventually almost bankrupted, uh, Callaway, uh, until they divested a few years ago.

Mm-hmm.

Scottsdale National Golf Club.

It is, uh, Bob Parsons pri- his private club.

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Yeah.

Yes, the canned answer.

I like the old quote from, I think it's Bob Parsons, who started GoDaddy.

I could be wrong, scratch me if I'm not, but it was like, no one knows true fear like an entrepreneur the night before payroll.

Yeah.

So, so walk me through that.

Walk through, 'cause that's, 'cause like, like dealing with Ely Callaway, now you're dealing with Bob Parsons so you're, you're going from one-

Well-

... one big daddy to the next one.

And Mike's the best." He worked for PING forever.

But, um, um, so I did.

And they were really the fir- You know, one thing, and you know, Bob Parsons i- i- is, he's a, really an amazing guy, really.

Uh, what, what he's done and what he's, what he, what he's gone through.

She was the chief counsel at GoDaddy when GoDaddy was at its infancy.

When I don't imagine that Bob Parsons or Christine Jones or anybody involved in that company imagined it was going to turn into the juggernaut it turned into.

That these were people that just had an idea that they ran with and they wanted to build something.

We can't ever lose that spirit.