A short YouTube holiday video (uploaded by Nate Tilley) featuring Speaker A giving an informal, grateful speech to early employees about trust, personal growth, and company-building. The speaker praises two long-standing team members (referred to as "you two"/Andy), contrasts their youthful beginnings with their matured contributions, and ends by presenting a gift to them.
And we really never have had, like, people that we can trust until we built this company. But it started with. With you two. It started with you two. And I'm super proud of you guys because I've seen you grow. And yes, you came in as crazy, you know, kids running around and being loud and all this stuff, but you still had the heart. You still had the heart. And yes, we were all lost. Like, the transition of. Is just unbelievable. But the more that you saw and the more that you. You grew and the more that you poured into people and the closer that. That we all got together, we all matured. With that being said, we have a gift for you guys. So if you guys can just come up here.
Thank you.
Andy. You too. Get over here. But we were thinking, you guys always, like, when you go to the airport, you guys pick the same snack everywhere you go. You guys go to the restaurant, you order the same thing. Sometimes they're like, even. Like they're not even together, and they just happen to get the same exact thing. I just. I don't even know how you guys have two different wives that are complete opposites, because you guys pick the same exact thing everywhere you go. But anyway, these are for you.
Elliot army. The elliot army. Look at that. Look at that. Oh, man. You know, I just. My prayer is that you guys all feel this feeling at some point in your life when you're just proud of yourself, you're proud of your team, proud of everybody else around you. It's gonna be hard. You gotta do the work. But that feeling of winning is awesome. I'm excited about the next step. And this is like a championship ring to me, winning a championship. We've done a lot of good things together. I'm ready for what's next. But I've always just appreciate. I'm literally just trying to live in this moment because sometimes you don't know how many of these moments you're gonna get. You just never know. I remember when we were starting was they said, well, we don't want to create a business. We want to create a family. And our whole lives, they told us to calm down. Our whole lives. They told us to chill out. Everybody didn't believe in us, and you guys did. And that, to me is like, the coolest thing that you can have is just people believing in you guys.
