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will still never understand why he chose a socially distanced rollout. but, to be fair, desantis tried something different. but it was a gamble and he ended up only getting a fraction of the live viewers he would have if he had done a more traditional rollout. media took the opportunity to dunk on the governor because of it. >> this would be like 162 game baseball season and your star pitcher getting the ball and accidently throwing it and hitting himself in the face. >> this is not a ...

Personal investment of his. they are heavy engineering based. so i see the merit of asking engineers to solve problems together in a room. that may work. and that may be something he mandates. but theres 10 other sectors in the s&p and what we have learned in those other sectors because i invest in all of them is that were unable to get 40% of our staff back. they are never coming back to the offers. for a whole host of reasons. including in cities like san francisco, personal safety. and so at ...

>> even then there might be a typo and you cant reach the person and you need to fix it. spe spend the time to loearn how to update your own website. >> hire slowly which is something everyone has trouble with. the reason it fits in here i suspect is because when you hire quickly and you have to fire someone t someone, its expensive. >> every business is different, but as far as the businesses ive run, peoples salaries are the greatest expense. especially if youre not a skilled hire and youre hi...

Then you can hire people, once youve proven your concept. >> but even then there might be a typo and you cant reach the person to fix it. spend the time to update your own website. its not that difficult. >> and hire slowly, which is something everyone has trouble with, and the reason it fits in here, i suspect, is because when you hire quickly and then you have to fire someone, its expensive. >> yeah. you know, every business is different, obviously, but as far as the businesses ive always run,...

Yet still people are miscategorizing employees as independent contractors left and right. >> i dont know, its not that they are so clear, its that they are so subjective right now. thats the difficulty is that i think the irs and the department of labor feel like they put clear rules out there, but then the business owner, the average person looks and says well, i think i have more discretion than i do. and thats not necessarily the case. >> so lets go through the check list you have to think ab...

Miscategorizing their employees as independent contractors left and right. >> its not theyre so clear, its that theyre so subjective right now. i think the irs and the department of labor feel like they have put clear rules out there. but then the business owner, the average person looks at it and says, well, i think i have more discretion than i really do and thats not necessarily the case. >> lets go through the checklist that you have to think about. number one, about how theyre paid. hourly ...

Retainer? im never quite sure when i should do that. should it be a project basis or have somebody already on retainer on standby? >> you laughed at this question. >> i play like softball every sunday with a bunch of attorneys. they argue over balls and strikes. in slow-pitch softball. you want to stay away from attorneys as much as you possibly can. >> you need them sometimes. >> ive been in business 20 years and ive never used an attorney. and if i -- at the very beginning when i was setting u...

Preneur, when is the appropriate time for me to bring in legal counsel on retainer. im never sure when i should do this. >> i play softball every sunday with a bunch of attorneys, they argue strikes. you want to stay away from attorneys as much as you can. >> you need them sometimes. >> i even been in business for 20 years and ive never used an attorney. at the very beginning i did. i only have ten employees. its not that big a business. if i need an attorney, aisle find an attorney on a project...

Run these construction projects. plas as they are called make it possible for collective bargaining on a project basis. and its a terrific name for the unions. its a union subsidy deal. >> comes in with a much lower bid to do something you cant get it. >> you cant worry about those bid levels. even if you bring in nonunion folks. you cant do it on a low bid. >> bill: is this democracy now? i dont understand. you have got a company thats going to come in and do the job for less money? and cant ge...

Run these construction projects. plas as they are called make it possible for collective bargaining on a project basis. and its a terrific name for the unions. its a union subsidy deal. >> comes in with a much lower bid to do something you cant get it. >> you cant worry about those bid levels. even if you bring in nonunion folks. you cant do it on a low bid. >> bill: is this democracy now? i dont understand. you have got a company thats going to come in and do the job for less money? and cant ge...