David Solomon
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So I think you can see more companies think that through.
And Alphabet's the first company to step forward.
Our team spent a lot of time over the last
five months really helping them think through these kinds of issues.
I think they were very smart to really think it all through.
Again, our team, really the team on that, really, really extraordinary.
Dan Dees, Kim Posnett.
I mean, just really Susie Sher, really, really extraordinary partners of the firm who've just done an extraordinary job over years.
I mean, over years.
Well, I mean, there are things that I'm willing to say and try to give you some perspective on it.
But the most important point that I could amplify about this is we didn't win this in the last six months.
We won this over the last 20 years.
Wow.
The decision wasn't made.
The decision wasn't made until the last six months.
And there's a lot of things that the team did.
over the last six months that contributed to the ultimate result, which by the way, now we have to execute.
But this is a cumulative effort of lots and lots of people over 20 years.
And we first, as a firm, we first met Elon Musk and the person that first was responsible for covering him was a guy named Stuart Bernstein who was doing a bunch of stuff
around kind of green energy.