I didn't do very well academically, but that... just was like it was a kind of a key lesson for me about you can either choose to use people as a reason not to do something or as a reason to do something right like that before yeah and it's just that that that for me was was a really important thing do you think that Do you think that changed how you showed up for the next 10 years of your life?

It did, definitely, yeah.

It also coincided with something that happened at home.

I had a row with my dad, and he said about a week later to me, one of these days that mouth of yours is going to get you into trouble, not knowing what had happened a week earlier.

So I then stupidly connected the two things together and said, well, that must be it then.

It's me.

It's about me.

It's got to bend.

I didn't do very well academically, but that... just was like it was a kind of a key lesson for me about you can either choose to use people as a reason not to do something or as a reason to do something right like that before yeah and it's just that that that for me was was a really important thing do you think that Do you think that changed how you showed up for the next 10 years of your life?

It did, definitely, yeah.

It also coincided with something that happened at home.

I had a row with my dad, and he said about a week later to me, one of these days that mouth of yours is going to get you into trouble, not knowing what had happened a week earlier.

So I then stupidly connected the two things together and said, well, that must be it then.

It's me.

It's about me.

When you consider that only 7% of companies get above a million, that's the same in the US and the UK, right? once you're into five six seven eight nine ten you need a lot more structure there needs to be a lot more uh kind of like of that corporatization right not necessarily the right word but you know that need there needs to be a this is how we do it here and we don't deviate from that whereas i think when you're still a scale up so you're still going from one to two to two to five you're in that zone there has to be a level of flexibility within it yeah of course Because you're moving so fast and it's got to flex, right? It has to flex.