Christian Owens

Maybe we just didn't send a press release and we should have.

I think, I think we definitely weren't the only people involved, but I think we kicked off the conversation.

Like I flew to Boston and I kind of pitched Patrick on kind of this idea.

I think it's the same, just to add, if you're venture-backed,

like you always have this stuff to hand like kind of yeah you i think you speak to lots of founders who are raising money and they find themselves in the process like you've spoken to like two people over coffee and suddenly you have a term sheet like oh like what do i do with this yeah and that was a thing then like and all of a sudden thankfully this is another thing that you should do is you should always keep potential acquirers i would say warm

Um, it was lower.

Yeah, that is true.

It was several... It was tens of millions lower.

I don't think it's... I think that...

I don't know whose quote it is or whatever.

It's sort of like businesses are either bought or they're sold.

ProfitWell was bought.

It was not sold.

Patrick didn't go through a decision where he's like, you know what?

I could use a new car.

The first term sheet probably came a week, two weeks before that.

It was sort of between Christmas and New Year.

Oh, no, no.

That was part of it as well.

There were just other pieces.