 Next question is from John Alva seven to build the business of mine pump Were there any hard compromises you as a team had to make if so What was the hardest to do for the better of the business? Yeah, I had to like we had to know Justin was gonna eat all the cheese in the studio. Yeah, that's mine No, that's not you know, um, this is a tough question because I don't know if we've had any hard Compromises I think they've all been pretty easy. There's definitely compromises, but they're not We haven't a fight, you know, I had to fight or argue right over them But I think you know Recognizing that it's you can't do everything and that other people are better suited for other things in the business I think that's an important thing to understand for all partners and I know we're pretty good about that I don't know if that was a hard compromise. It was a hard compromise at first There was growing pains where we went through letting go stuff Doug still struggles with it today I think that we all we all tend to and we did a lot I think at the very beginning we wanted to do everything together. We all we all got together We all liked each other so much and we all respected each other as leaders themselves And so every decision made in the business We felt the need that you know, you want to bring your partners in and they need to make that decision with you and I think everybody was a little reluctant to just take charge of an area and just make the decision for the company and so We probably had I would say about a six month to a year there Where we we kind of were stagnant because we were not allowing each other to kind of disperse and get things done and just Not worry about trying to bring involve everybody with every decision. So there was some growing pains there I had to compromise. I felt a little bit at the beginning But I look back now and I think it was that one of the best things that ever that happened to me was I struggled with not having kids at the beginning and The this like nine to two schedule that we had like structured So the guys could be be home with their kids and do the things that were very very important to them Which was family and I was in like let's scale this thing mode and let's spend the night and park our tents out at The studio and not leave until it's at a certain level So I had to and which it wasn't necessary for us to do that But it was it was something that I was used to because I'm not an organized person So my way of success in the past was just get after it just be so focused on it That's all you think about 24 7 and you'll eventually get all the things you need to get done But what it really forced me to do was become better organized better Efficient with my time that we had this time together that I had due to get it done And and then now looking back now that I have a son It was the best thing that we ever did because I value that time the same way that these guys value that time And so it felt like a compromise and a struggle for me Early on but because we got through it and figured it out. It was one of the best things that we ever did Yeah, you know the reason why I have a tough time with it saying hard compromise I think like hard compromise would be all of us like no, it's got to be this way No, it's got to be that somebody still like salty about it today. Yeah, I don't think anybody No, I didn't you know that didn't seem like it was a hard compromise because you didn't like you wasn't like something that you Were yelling and mad about you know, we we all and that's probably because we're older I would say I could imagine if we were younger and we started mine pump this this would have been a boy This would have been I mean, I still think we would have worked through it But I think there probably would have been a one or two fist fights You know or something like that, you know throwing something but But now you mean the hardest had to been the dividing and conquering like probably I can agree I really only think in the last year so we're gonna work mine pump is five and a half years old now Right, and it's only been maybe a year year and a half tops I would say we really have all kind of fallen into our When we built this we didn't have we didn't sit down and have this like you're this position You're that position these are your job titles and probably an CEO outside looking in would think that it was gonna fall apart for Those reasons because we didn't do that But we let it nap we let we allowed the natural growth and allowed everyone to kind of naturally fall into Their strengths and it ended up working out but there was there was that at the beginning I think there was that You know oh Sal can just go handle that and he'll make the decision for us and I'm not gonna question it I don't I would trust him to do that Justin same thing Doug and myself But at the beginning we had this thing where it was like every guy was a counsel Yeah, every every oh my god I remember those days like vividly or we'd bring something in and then we'd have this round robin discussion It would be hours long and heated back and forth back and forth, and then it would just be like it would stall Whatever that was that we're trying to actually do all right. We'll get the blue dumbbells So stupid yeah, but you know at the same time we valued everybody's opinion So it was like I did want to bring it to the group everybody had that sense You know and that's a really believe it or not I'm we're acting like we're down playing how much of a compromise that is but that takes a lot of I don't know if that would have been able to if we would have been able to do that in our 20s And that takes a lot of trust in your partners to be able to just walk away from your you know This is everybody's baby here, right? There's four of us that created this from nothing. It's everyone's child So to think that there's a part of raising this child that the other three guys has like got to a point We're just like oh yeah, Adam you go ahead and make the decision for how the kid is going to learn this or Sal You go ahead and decide what is his moral fabric is going to be about oh Justin You go ahead and decide what sports he's into or I mean literally that's what we've done with his business And that's a big compromise to allow each other to do that and we worked our way through it I think really nice and it didn't take that long to do it, but it was it was a struggle at the beginning I think yeah, yeah, and you know There's been there's been times when we've thought about whether or not we should express a particular opinion or we should you Know talk about a particular thing, you know and at the end of the day The one thing I think we've never had to compromise on is these these core values and one of them is just maintaining Our integrity at all costs meaning okay, if we believe something and we say it and We're against everybody else. This was early days of mind pump not so much now But early days there was a lot of stuff we said that That wasn't widely accepted in the fitness space for example, and it was a risky It was risky to come out and say no, that's all wrong. That's all bullshit. Here's the deal We were no we were no buddies when we first came out But one thing that we don't compromise is we're willing to to take it all down if we have to We're not gonna compromise on on you know what we believe to be true And I think that's another I think that's what makes the other compromise is possible You know if we didn't have a core like like there's certain things that I know where you guys What you guys would do and I know you guys Value for example integrity as one of those top things that makes other compromises easy because there's a solid base You know I'm saying true. I think that's an important thing to have about that base