Felipe Corto
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Yes, yes.
Because we believe we had a very good, strong and solid model that will be well received by Wall Street.
And it's an efficient way because if you go and continue, we could have tried to be a unicorn.
But then, of course, suddenly you have a lot more investment made and then they push you to spend more money than what you need for growth.
So we thought it would be better to go public.
I was in fact the founder and more of the engine investor and became the CEO in 2001 when I invested a lot of money because at the time the VCs were shying away from everything which was internet security applied to the enterprise.
That was the internet bubble.
So I had to invest my own money.
How much of your own money did you put in?
I put about $25 million.
Okay.
Correct.
Oh, from previous successful, uh, you know, I'm the kind of a serial entrepreneur.
I've built about five or six companies, which, uh, either is I've sold a couple of them.
I took public one and, uh,
And so, you know, hard work.
And, you know, I did that in mail with CC Mail, in search with Verity, in internet payment with Signio and Qualys, of course.
So, yeah.
I think we're more than one moving into the space of a lot of security companies because we have a platform, a real, true cloud-based platform.
And that's what gives us a significant leverage.