All right, guys, check it out.

I got Peter Thomas in the house.

This guy is 52 years old.

You got quite the history, Peter.

Why don't we just tell us a little bit about you?

Your history.

Tell me your three biggest mistakes, too, because we were talking about that earlier.

The mistakes are not listening to my wife enough.

If you'd listen to her more and I'd be probably more successful.

Listen to the wife, Rita.

But I think when I got started in marketing in sales,

I started selling mutual funds when I got out of the Army.

And then went into franchising and learned about franchising. I was lucky enough to be able to acquire the rights for Canada for the century 21 concept, the real estate concept. Century 21 of all of Canada. Yeah, yeah. And that was sort of my first time. And what year was that? 74. 1974. Yeah, 74. Yeah, 74. Yeah. really got lucky and I've always been blessed that I get great people around me.

Everybody around me is much smarter than me.

Yeah, I know that goes.

And so, you know, the people help you and you grow, and we grew that one to about $8 billion.

That was my first.

Eight billion.

Yeah, in sales.

That's fantastic. It was, it was an amazing concept and pretty wonderful. I got lucky and lightning struck twice. I had another company called Dogtopia. Dogtopia were the, they take care of dogs. Dog, yeah, doggy day care, yeah. A lady had, she had about about 15, 20 stores and was kind of struggling looking for money.

And so I wanted lending her some money.

And then that loan turned into equity.

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