Bryan Cantrill

And that we're going to be building Oxide in the same way that we have been doing for why we started the company, why we've been kind of shaping things the way that we have.

for many, many years to come.

And we've lived it.

We've lived the byproduct of companies that have been in situations where they had to contemplate acquisition.

And as customers ourselves, and then as an acquired company in a past life,

And having had those conversations with the customers of like, what does this mean?

Yeah, I mean, so typically when you're raising a large round and you have a large lead investor who's coming into the round, which was the case in the Series B, we had a large new investor come in.

And one of the things that changes is board dynamics and composition because you have a new board member coming in.

And in some circumstances, maybe if you've got co-leads, maybe you have two new board members coming in, and that then kind of changes the dynamics, changes the voting structure, changes a bunch about, can change a bunch of how the company is governed.

Now, I would say that we have been extremely, extremely fortunate in that our board is not, what?

What are you laughing at?

And therefore, you want to make sure that you pick your investors carefully.

And you want to make sure that you have got as good alignment as you can get.

And so that means making sure that you're...

The whole process of fundraising is like trying on working with someone and they're trying on working with the founders.

And you want to understand that this person believes in this big opportunity and the mission and that it's not always going to be easy and it's going to take a long time.

Long time now.

But we, you know, we, and, and you, these relationships end up being extremely, extremely important and being able to have hard conversations with each other and, and take in new information and kind of process that and figure out what, what that means for what's next for the company.

And we, you know, I think along the way got, got very, very lucky with,

investors on the board that had the same view and same conviction that we did.