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It's a very, very small, small percentage that get to a point where they're growing profitably.

So.

We made that decision.

Now, when we made that decision, Nathan, it meant we don't have to go public.

We don't have to raise more capital.

We don't.

So there may be a reason we want to do it, say, if we're going to acquire a company or if we're going to make a really important product investment in a in an upcoming year or something where we say, you know, we want to raise more capital to do that.

But I'm you know, I'm really happy and pleased to tell you we don't have to raise more money.

We're going to raise more money in terms of an IPO or in terms of public money or private money if we want to, because we have strategic things we're trying to do that help drive the mission of the company.

Correct.

I have been for about a year.

Yeah, no, it's a great point.

And by the way, our early employees had an opportunity to sell some of their options, some of their shares at the Bain round.

How did you manage that?

Yeah, we made it possible for everybody that had options prior to raising venture capital.

So for all those brave souls who took the leap before we had any financial backing whatsoever...

At the Series D, we gave them an opportunity to sell some shares.

And I'm really proud of the fact that we had employees that took trips of a lifetime and bought a car and did different things because capitalism is awesome.

I'm a great believer in conscious capitalism.

To answer your question, yeah, you've got to have liquidity.