I truly believe you people come into your life for a reason, I teed it to, you know, give

you a lesson or ongoing lessons.

This is the playbook.

This is Dave Meltzer with the playbook.

I'm here in Las Vegas at the win hotel in the lobby at the Blue Wires studios.

The best podcast studios on the planet, speaking of the best on the planet, I have a special

guest, my friend Rick Mirza, he's the CEO of top dot solar.

And as everybody knows, the solar space Rick is growing so fast.

You're not the only one with great success, but you are the top of the top dot of solar.

Why do you think you've had such exponential success above and beyond what a lot of people

are experiencing solar?

I would say David, you know, the biggest key ingredient to our success is just a consistency

part, and you know, you do this so well, is just staying consistent to our roots, our values

and principles, the ones that we put together, when we started the company, the ones that we

adjusted, when COVID happened, and all that really was a blessing in disguise, staying consistent

with our marketing, staying consistent with our, you know, onboarding, hiring, and then training

therefore, really made it so the top tier talent that we bought on board, they stayed.

All right, retention has been our biggest thing so far that I think I'm proud of.

And, you know, beyond retention is recruitment, and there is a heavy shortage, especially in

solar sales and solar installation of finding top notch top dot solar installers and sales people.

You've been able to attract incredible talent in the space, and that talent has contributed to

the exponential success. What are some of the things that you're doing differently to attract such

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