Alex Behring

To which he answered, no.

can't.

I mean, what else do you say?

And I hanged up and I called him, said, how did it go?

I said, well, not so well, kind of short.

And then we did some more work and made improvements to our offer.

And then we send it to him, revise it, offer to them in the hopes that that would be enticing.

And then we were prepared again to sit and wait for an extended period of time.

only to be surprised and get a response back in hours or two.

I think I want to say less than a day.

Saying thank you for your offer.

We are not prepared to move forward.

And we wish you, again, the best of luck with your future endeavors.

So now we're really scrambling and trying to find every possible way of engaging in the dialogue and figuring out what is it that we had to do, if anything.

to get a conversation going.

Then ultimately we found ways by means of which we're able to meet with him and his chief financial officer and was able to then drag down with me again and engage into a conversation and gain some insight in terms of what is it exactly that we would need to do to get this companies together.

And then after some time in that conversation, we were able to have a revised offer that they thought was then enticing enough.

We then moved on to the usual drafting and legal and due diligence phase of it, only to receive a call on a Sunday afternoon saying,

From the Wall Street Journal saying, listen, we know you guys are about to announce a deal.

We're going to go live with it.