 Tom here from Orange Systems and should I sell my business? What do you think Brett? I don't think you need to do that I think we've talked about this so many times that it just really It's starting to irritate me Tom because that's why you brought me, okay? And that's actually what we're leading up to here is the changes we made here at Lawrence systems The question pops up a lot of hey Tom Do you plan to go to YouTube full-time or do you plan to sell the business you plan to be a full-time content creator? And there's obviously times I've really thought about doing that because well There's sometimes I don't love the functional parts are running a business But I always love the tech side of things because well a lot of times you would refer to that as someone who's a technical founder and Not as much a business operations person also the skill sets to Found a business and run it and also be that weird tech the guy are not always aligned And there's a transition point you have to make I have to decide do I want to just wear the business hat full-time because there's a lot of moving parts to a business that have to be managed Do I sell the business and just focus on technical things or? option Brett and What Brett is doing now is he is taking on it and this has been going on for a little while Brett started as a Outside contractor trying to organize me and everything here and he did a great job and then I decided to become the entire Will title you vice president essentially, but Brett runs Yeah, Brett runs all the operations here I play with tech and make YouTube videos while Brett runs this now I have not stepping out of the business so to speak I'm actually still actively involved, but I'm only focused on you know architecting textural architecting technical projects that's mouthful and Making sure that making sure what technologies we choose cyber security products we choose Network stacks that we use in all the different products and things like that So I'm always focused on that and Brett make sure all the contractors are happy actually that's gonna be a video We really need to dive into it sometime is how many contractors we have there's a lot We do have a lot, but you know you and I had a lot of discussion about you and The the the stuff you do on YouTube and that you talk about and I think the importance and people need to truly understand is the things you talk about you use in the real world today and When you were we we've had serious conversations about selling Lawrence technology services but it came to the point of you still being relevant and and and still being in the mix and Doing videos that you actually are and the company is actually the products were using every day And so those discussions led to me coming here full-time and working on the processes working on the operations aspects working on the sales Aspects and and getting those to run in harmony because when you have a staff like you have We need to make sure that everyone is doing their part within the operation and that's That's not for you Tom. You are the right here. You're the you're the brains of the operation You just need someone like me and that's why I'm here is to take those thoughts and we do what Tom And I'll have talks in the morning Almost every morning about what's Tom thinking about and I have actually a list What's Tom thinking about and I take that and and and put that into real? operational processes and and so that we can run efficiently and help our customers to the best of our abilities Yeah, and two pieces to this one of them is I don't want to become a full-time tech YouTuber if you want to call that a career and it is don't get me wrong And I'm not discharging people who do this But one of the perspectives I come from is the deployment and knowledge I get it's kind of a feedback loop I like a product. I test a product. We deploy the product We deploy the product sometimes at scale in the case of unify and you gain a lot more hands-on knowledge Doing it at scale if I were to just be a full-time tech reviewer at some point I can only give you hey cool. I set up this Wi-Fi device or I tested this thing But I can't really answer the question anymore What does it look like when you deploy 200 of that thing unless I always am an outside consultant? But then I have less, you know direct I wanted to remain directly involved in a technology and Hands-on deployment part It's also a big part that I had to do was just kind of admit that business is not as much as people go Hey, Tom, you're a tech leader, etc. You've done, you know, you've done well in business and put all this together But I'm like stop don't know it's I'm the unwilling entrepreneur sometimes It's not knowing that's not my absolute skill set that tech is more where I can be more effective and Understanding that this is something that I think not everyone comes to a realization of you Don't always have the skill set for both you may think you do But once you start realizing maybe where your skill set is better and being going You know what? I'm just gonna let go and delegate that over here Go ahead Brett set the pricing get the business operations. It's the numbers Make sure all the contractors are you know the set pricing with contractors is a big part of it And that's where Brett comes in and I really am happy to step out of it And I'm willing very much so to let go as I know this is that topic when people ask about hiring people How did you let go of any function of something and delegate it out to a point in it? You just have to at some point you have to realize that has to be done in order And and don't I don't want you to sell yourself short because you you created This okay, you've gotten it thus this far. Yeah, and and and done very well at it So I don't want you to sell yourself short Tom because it's you've done a lot of great things So well, it's just a matter to go further. I got us to here But to get us to the next level is where that is but we've seen more brown on the channel That's one of the reasons we did this is Brett's going to be in him We'll co-author some business videos and still talk about this because the contractor one I've been wanting to do because people ask how you get these big projects done, but you only have a handful of employees Contractors is a secret ingredient for that but by the way contractors. It's a lot to manage isn't it Brett? Yes, it is Contractors that it's it you know what though, but it's it's a great part of my job because I get to be in the mix of it all And and I'm not the tech guy, right? I'm the operations and sales guy and I get to learn from our contractors I get to learn from Tom I get to learn from the team here. It's it's it's an awesome experience Yeah, it's we have a lot of fun here And I don't want any that to change and if I get burdened down with some of the business stuff I'm a less fun person to be around so the goal is to keep it happy me and Brett have these We actually have a lot of morning talks and the morning talk this morning as Brett learned he was doing a video Yeah, it's just happening. It's just happening But you know these are things that we wanted to get done But this is the channel announcement Brett is going to is running has been for a little while now running Operations, I wanted to put it out there and just talk about that It's one of those things you want to think about as you grow your business and as you set your goals Where do you want to be do you want to be the technical person all the time? And you can be and there's examples of very large companies where you'll see the technical founders And this is actually kind of common they may find found the company But they realize they step aside and let some business operations people run things and you know, I still maintain Ownership of the company. I just Operationally I'm not running it's a strategy to think about but this is also for people who ask like hey What do you do in time and future things? This will be the reply video and also hey Who's that Brett guy where did he come from because you guys did a couple of business videos together by the way Me and Brett have a history of doing business videos together Which I'll leave some links to down below and look forward to the future by the way Leave all your questions about business down there because that's what helps inspire us to make some of these new videos Yep So all right, I'll quit talking here. I'll keep talking over Brett and actually Brett we all got a Brett's got to go Do a bid so I do I get to drive to good old Toledo today. Yeah, so Brett's been actively doing that and he gets to meet with the contractors and control the logistics of another large wiring install We're still working on doing videos on those Those are very tricky to do better fact the email we got minutes before we started this says Hey, you guys are the ones gonna do the project first quit the first line item, but no social media pictures That was actually the first right Which is a shame we can't post all this in social media But anyways leave your business comments down below or questions and things you want to ask me and Brett and we're gonna work On some new business topics. I've decided to keep them on this channel for now But there's actually what more future news might be coming on that We're gonna talk with some other people about doing some business videos and joining in on that So I haven't dropped that topic, but I'll be mostly myself covering the technical ones. All right, and thanks And thank you for making it to the end of this video if you enjoyed this content Please give it a thumbs up you like to see more content from this channel Hit the subscribe button and the bell icon to hire a sure project head over to Lawrence systems calm and click on the Hire us button right at the top to help this channel out in other ways There's a join button here for YouTube and a patreon page where your support is greatly appreciated For deals discounts and offers check out our affiliate links in the descriptions of all of our videos including a link to our shirt store We have a wide variety of shirts and new designs come out. 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