What's up guys? We have Matt Troyer from Emergent Group from Indy on the podcast today and you guys are going to really enjoy this one. We actually talk a lot about what you do when your guys are doing side work. We touch on the possibilities of one of my guys possibly

becoming a partner. But we also talk about kind of what developed his path for this industry and how a risk his father took early on in his

career led to him taking a very similar risk later on. And we're on.

Let's do this boys.

So your dad's an architect.

That's how you get exposed to this business? So your dad's an architect.

That's how you get exposed to this business?

Yeah, he quit his job about the same place in life that I'm at right now like three kids at home

Quix his old job. Sorry was an architecture firm up north to Fort Lane, small town. Stop being employee.

Stop being employee was just ready to do his own thing and came home and shocked mom one day and said I'm done I'm

working for my I'm going to do construction architecture.

Well I kind of think that it shocked you because you were six and I don't think I remember a lot of things

when I was 60.

No. No. So that definitely left an etch on you as well.

My wife gives me a grief all the time that I don't remember anything as a childhood like previous to like first or second grade she thinks there's

something wrong with me or something happened that I don't know about.

You're hiding it.

We're still digging into that.

Your dad left his job with three kids. The emotional damage, yeah. So what, I mean, I'm sure that all of us kind of know the reasoning for that

but did you ever ask him why? Like why you would leave a job like that and start something on your own

when you have that much on the table?

I think it was, we talked a little bit about it,

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