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parcel. I started the company, so I know

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the pain and struggle and not always pain. But

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what goes into building a small business? And I've

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been fairly passionate, obviously. Covitz a horrific situation

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that nobody can really predict that it was coming.

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But small businesses are being ravaged. Uh, you

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know, restaurants, bars, things like that.

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And I've spoken about it a lot because I couldn't

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imagine myself being in that situation where you, you

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know, you could work a year, two years

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a decade, building a business and then through no

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fault of your own, you know, you can't

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succeed, your livelihood crushed. And I know it

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was up to me. I want the opportunity,

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you know, to fight for it. And a

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lot of places just didn't have that chance. You

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close indoor dining. Um, you know, people

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can't go out and the government is not giving these

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small business most of them nearly enough money to survive.

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I put in 500 grand of my own money,

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and then it was like people could donate.

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So we have looking at now. 31,000 people have

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donated, created over $2 million and were simultaneously then

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asking for stories from small businesses who need help.

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And by the way, the hardest thing I think

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for business owner who's been running a successful business is

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they don't want help. They wanna be ableto work.

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Our basic motto here is we will give you

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the money you need. Tell us how much it

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is to pay your employees. That's the only requirement

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your payroll has to be on and let us just

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bridge The gap will be there until at least the

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warmer months and you can open. So we're not

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going to give you If you need 20 grand a

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month, we'll give it to you every month till

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this thing clears up and you could go back to

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somewhat business as usual. This has nothing to do

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with politics. There is Democrats. Republicans who owned

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small businesses are dying and struggling. And truly,

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it's the backbone of this country. Like the stories

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you get, they are the American dream, and

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somehow they're just being ignored. It everyone gets it's

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a terrible situation. There's no perfect solution, but

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there has to be something better than nothing, which

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is what they're getting