Marshall Atkinson Okay. And so, now you've started with just you working out of the garage. Can you tell everyone where you are now with your employee count and your equipment and all that? Brett Bowden Yeah, so we have a 21,000 square foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas right near downtown. If you live in Fort Worth, you'll see us driving down I-35. I've got, I think 35 employees doing about $4 million in revenue and, we just ordered our fifth automatic press. We've got 10 heads of embroidery, I think that's about to grow as well. And then we run not only our production of screen printing and embroidery and doing some digital printing, but we have another warehouse dedicated to doing order fulfillment for our customers. Marshall Atkinson Okay. And so let's, let's kind of talk about your internal culture. You know, you've grown significantly since you started. And now you've just most recently merged with another shop, right? So how important is culture to your team? And that's what we're going to be talking about today anyway. So what are you doing to instill that daily? Brett Bowden About 7 or 8 years ago, my brother made a great connection between me and a guy who's a business coach and he started asking me some really hard questions. I didn't have the answer to -- and asking the questions of vision and values and those types of things got me thinking. And I sat down with our small team at the time and said, you know, what is special about Printed Threads? What is special about us? What's the difference? And you're sitting in a room with a bunch of people that kind of just came out of rock and roll and you look around the room and you're like, “Oh, well. these, you know, we were the same. Each of us is the same. We would like to hang out with each other, whether at work or not at work.” And what does that mean? Like, what is the same for us? So, looking first at our values and being able to write down our values on a piece of paper, actually came a lot easier than I thought it would. But if you think about who you grew up with -- you might still have friends now that you grew up with, and maybe you don't see them all the time, but when you do see each other you catch up right from where you left off, right? And a lot of that is because you grew up in the same value system. And so, when we started looking at hiring more people to work at Printed Threads, it is important that they align with those values. You know, we like to have fun, but we need to work hard.
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