pete i want to start talking about kind of the the misconceptions of of a minority sale and specifically get into a discussion about one of your clients who we worked with now you know close to a decade ago um who who was was really adamant that's the way he wanted to go why don't you tell us a little bit of the story here

yeah i appreciate it craig thanks for having me on again yeah it was a business owner that i've known for years.

A business owner that I looked up to was my mentor and my former employer.

In his early 40s, he left the organization we were both at and started his own company from scratch and built it up very quickly and got to close to $50 million in revenue within about five years.

Extreme growth, great vision, been there, done that.

And when he approached me, it was, hey, Peter, I think I just want to bring on a minority investor.

And what we mean by that is a private equity firm that's going to come in and own less than 50%.

And from the standpoint of the cap table and some of these big decisions, you're seeking your partner's approval regardless of the volume of shares that they own.

Take me back through the work you were doing and how it would help to pave the way for what you're doing now at Caber Hill.

Yeah, happy to, and love to take a step back from that, actually.

Uh, growing up in a, uh, a family construction company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I'm from, Double N Contractors.

Uh, my, my family started that company.

My parents didn't go to college, right? So they started that firm, uh, that company, and I have three older brothers, and we all had to work there through middle school, high school, and college.

So that's where I got my blue collar, I got my hands dirty, and, um, you know, I, I was in the field.

I wasn't, uh, in an office and, and really getting an understanding of what, what it takes to do work.

Not a, not a present day framework that you, uh, continue to use and reference.