Welcome back to the shared practices podcast. I have with me the King of the Ask George section of the show, the segment, George himself. George Roree. How's it going, man?

This is one of my favorite things to do. So I love just kind of picking a topic and just diving in and showing it from different perspectives. And this particular

episode, we're going to be talking about startup versus acquisition. And I just want to start by saying

that we have a saying internally, strong opinions loosely held. And if anyone's kind of long time

shared practices listeners, know that acquisitions have just been like something that I am so

deeply passionate about.

And in my career, I've been involved in 37 offices, 36 startups and one acquisition.

And so I just think that it's so funny because now I have a password and my password is a joke

about this actual phenomenon. So I type in a password about

startups. I set that password by the way. Oh, really? That's so funny. So I have a password that I use

and it's kind of a joke about this. Sorry, I even forget, like, it's George loves startups. I'm not

going to tell you the numbers of the exclamation marks. I don't remember even what platform it is, which is so funny.

But I remember putting that in and like snickering to myself that you would have to type that in all the time.

And it's actually proven to be true.

And now as we've continued to grow the DSO, we continue to want to go with startups.

And so I think I just have a really unique

perspective as somebody who has believed firmly in both sides. And I actually don't think it's one or the

other. I think it's for the right situation. One makes sense sometimes more than others. And

sometimes there's a combination of both even. So I just think that this will definitely be a

great discussion to help

anybody aside between startup and acquisition or even understanding where one makes more sense than

the other. And ironically, just to like immediately make the episode more complex than it needs

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