Alex Heath
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Obviously, they scaled much ahead of us.
They basically went ahead and before us.
And that was a difficult period for the company because like, that was, I would say, the most difficult period because we were kind of like hamstrung, like being told no by the government.
And, you know, we, and then you had a competitor that's sort of like doing it, you know, and you've seen this kind of, I think Coinbase had their fair share of competitors that operate that way.
And that happened over and over.
And it was tough because you go to the regulators, you're blocking us, but you're not blocking them.
How is this fair?
And that was, I think, the toughest part of the journey.
But the beauty is when we won the lawsuit last year, so we sued the government over the election market, then we won that, and we were on the right side of the law.
The market share obviously changed, but the mind share now, and we were looking at the metrics for this last quarter, like the fall,
we're actually something like 55% of the Google searches in the US.
Like we've actually overtaken even in Mindshare.
And so, you know, for a while we've been leaning on like the core business metrics and the product and the team, but now we're also actually at least equivalent in terms of the Mindshare.
We've gained a lot of territory there.
So it's just a matter of time.
I think at the end of the day, everything will converge towards a better product, you know, and I feel pretty good about our product.
I think that's on them to comment.
I think that like... Oh, come on.
I mean, look, our view is like...
We approached it differently.