“Most people do a roll-up and they do AI, whether it's private equity or venture. It's ring the costs out, rinse and repeat. … I said, so is the objective that you're going to make these companies more productive, you're going to cut costs? What's the end game here? He said, no, Ken, … we actually want to achieve top-line growth. If we have to lay off many people, that means we failed at our strategy.”

…private equity or venture. It's ring the costs out, rinse and repeat, go on. What was compelling about what we put together with Alex and Zach was I remember asking him the question. I said, so is the objective that what you're going to do is you're going to make these companies more productive, you're going to cut costs. What's the end game here? He said, no, Ken, here's what we're going to do. We actually want to achieve top-line growth. If we have to lay off many people, that means we failed at our strategy. They've done now over 30 roll-ups of companies in different industries. And they haven't had to lay off people. Of course, they lay off people for performance and whatever, but they've really dramatically improved the top-line growth of really legacy companies. I mean, the HOA industry, you know, property manager industry, who would have said, boy, this is a real terrific opportunity for AI.…