Thank you so much, first of all, my name is Dave.

Hey, Dave.

What I've understood is the core principle of growth is finding the right people and building

the leadership and the culture of, you know, building more and more leaders.

So if somebody has to build a leadership team or the culture of leadership, what advice would

you give to somebody like me to build a leadership culture,

finding right people, take more decisions?

Yeah, good questions, Dave.

So, first of all, I joined YPO, which I think you're a part of, years ago.

I'm no longer in it. I gave the spot to Eric, my president.

But when I joined, I went and met with all these other young presidents

across the country or North America who had run businesses that were a billion or bigger.

And I asked them the question, what's the hardest? Is it a million, 10 million, 100, or a billion?

And everyone's like, a billion's the easiest. Every person without exception.

And I said, why is that?

And they said, well, a million is the hardest because it's the first copy.

You're trying to figure out the systems.

You're trying to figure out if it even works.

And you're making lots of mistakes and losing money.

10 million, 100, a billion.

It gets easier because of the culture, the team you're building,

you're not doing everything anymore, you focus in on what you do extremely or exceptionally well,

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