Christian Owens
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We've said that kind of more than anything else.
It's definitely not skill, it was luck.
But like two months earlier, and we might've raised it like a $3.5 billion valuation.
And that wouldn't have been good for the company because it would have been overpriced.
We would have been trying to grow into it.
Two months later, I think the deal might not have happened at all.
in terms of being able to do this off balance.
That's what he's trying to do.
We're not a super high burn business, but we're not profitable prior to this.
I think, could we have done it?
Maybe.
Maybe.
Like, probably not.
I think it would have been irresponsible.
Given that we're a loss-making kind of company, and we're focused on growth, we would have had… Yeah.
Zero to fairly negative runway afterwards.
It would have been irresponsible.
Maka's so good.
He's really good.
I like him.