Emmet

The reason March 2000 popped out of my mouth was because I remember a very personal story where I was in a hotel in Ireland called Mount Juliet, which is a very nice fancy hotel in Kilkenny in March 2000.

And it was before mobile internet was

As reliable and as fast as it is now, in those days with your laptop computer, you slid in this card into the side to give it mobile internet.

I think it was called a PIMSIA card.

And it used lots of channels on GSM to bring internet to your computer.

And I logged in.

This, for me, is one of the defining moments of my investing life.

And I logged in to...

learn of the disadvantages of margin trading as I sat in that hotel, because I had built, by my life standards, at that stage I was 26 years old, by my life standards I had amassed a huge amount of wealth that could never have been envisaged, but as a consequence of investing in the stock market,

with a bull run, aka the dot com bubble and using margins.

And all of a sudden my brokerage had locked me out of my brokerage account.

All I could do was look at it as I was selling positions in order to replenish the debt that I owed as a consequence of borrowing to buy more.

And this giant portfolio

um worth a huge multiple multiple multiple of an annual salary was literally dropping by five grand ten grand five grand with every refresh of the screen and that was for me observing a bubble bursting in real time and and uh anyway i go i i digress to tell that story but it was it was very real for me at the time no i i don't think it's a digression at all i think it's a very real very visceral

I'm really enjoying this question because I'm fascinated in the answer.

I have no idea, no idea.

But what I do know was that I tracked C3 AI, ticker AI, for years from IPO through to about two years ago when I thought this is a phony company.

Now, I won't...

I won't elaborate on that because I don't have notes in front of me.

But what I mean by phony was I contacted them actually as the founder of my Wall Street with a view to help us integrate AI into our business before it was everywhere, right?