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I think there's these two main visions.

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I'll start with Kenobi Capital and why I'm doing this.

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So I've gone through the sale of two companies

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and some smaller sales in between.

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And what I really found through this exiting process

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is that the incentives for a small business owner to exit

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are not aligned with the traditional people

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in that market.

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If you look at traditional private equity,

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their business model is buy low, sell high.

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And that doesn't align with the small business owner that's

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really built this whole company taking a lot of risk.

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And 80% of employment is with small business owners.

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That's where most of us are employed.

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So they're taking a lot of risk, but they're not

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able to exit from their companies

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at the value they deserve.

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And the second thing in this market

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is that you have a lot of business brokers, which also,

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their job is to help you exit.

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But they don't necessarily understand your business.