Ben Nye

And just to make the case, roll the tape forward, and every one of those players that we looked at has either been acquired or gone.

No, no, I'm sorry.

The startups competing with their prominence in the market, and they were the 999 pound gorilla.

No, quite the reverse.

They're not going to die.

I think their growth rate is going to continue to slow, but I don't think they're going to die.

They've got a huge amount of cash that they generate.

Yeah, so we're just a hair shy of 1,600 CIOs who invested in Turbonomic.

Again, real-time autonomic control.

And the company is over 400 people.

We've had 24 consecutive quarters of record revenue, which is pretty exciting.

And by the way, the last two, based on audited numbers, have been back-to-back years on the Inc.

500.

It's a very exciting time.

I tell you, the numbers keep going up and we keep working harder.

On a percentage basis, we certainly will be high double digits.

You know, if you look at us over the, well, since inception, when we put a product out first in 2010, the compound annual growth rate is certainly three digits.

Got it.

When you get to the law of large numbers, it's harder to comp, to your point earlier, it's harder to comp at the same rate of growth, but it's certainly been a really stunning pace.

Uh, yeah, we, we actually closed that in November of, uh, 14 and then announced it later.