later on she also asked me is there anything that would change your mind. i think seeing how the military s leadership has gone down this path of the past few years. there is only one thing that would change my mind. pete: what is that? that is the veteran entrepreneur act of 2023 that caitlin rowe and my dad wrote and drafted. it is a bill and he could tell you more about it. pete: it would allow the g.i. bill to be used for starting business if i understand that. as a high school senior you started a social media marketing company so you have options. jason you re involved in the veteran space and you understand the military very well, hammocks has it changed, for those that might say it s not different.
owners get rich and the employees usually get screwed. we wanted to do something very, very different so we created a stock fund. our employees were not shareholders so we actually baked them into the deal. this is something the acquiring company, meredith, absolutely loved because it made everyone act like an owner. so it s been terrific for loyalty and terrific for retention for us. so you set goals for them. if they reached those goals, that was an incentive to reach those goals and they got more money put into that pool, right? absolutely. so everyone was completely aligned. so mara, in the beginning what did you think? did you go, yeah, that sounds good? yeah, there was a lot of great energy in the office. but, you know, three years at a social media marketing company when things are changing very rapidly and we re innovating every single day, three years seems like a long time away. our party last weekend was a great payoff for that discussion that we had so many years ag