Building an insurance company works like building a baseball team. You need a full roster of 25 players plus minor league levels feeding talent up, not just a few stars. Insurance firms should scout early, train through stages, and develop deep talent pipelines the same way baseball does.
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Let's take like maybe baseball. You want to start the Braves of insurance. You want 9 professionals on the field. In order to start 9, how many they have on the team? 15? I don't know. I don't know baseball. Uh, 15, 20? So to get the starting 9, you gotta have 25 on the roster. Yeah. But then what do they have? They have AA, AAA, A-ball, right? Yeah. So now they got 3 layers of minor league ball. Each team maybe has 25, 30. I don't fucking know. So there's 100. Right there. Where do they fill the minor league people from? College. How many are in college baseball? A lot. Where do we get— where do college get their players from? High school. High school. How many of those suckers are there? Yeah, there's a crazy number with, uh, basketball. There's only like 4,000 NBA players in history. Yeah, right, right. Yeah, so like everyone wants to have the equivalent of, I want to have the Braves. All right, cool, go find 9 guys to play baseball. Yeah, dude, it don't work like that, you know what I mean? Yeah, then you gotta start working with them in the Little League. Like, the Braves literally let Maddux go to a camp to learn baseball. At 10. They're scouting early, dude.