Gili Raanan

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I think that we are buying, probably not mention the exact number, but it's many, many millions of dollars of few hundred employees of Sayera.

It's an ongoing process with management.

You have to price the round.

So liquidity is, you know, back to the topic, I gave you the example just to show how we practice this, you know,

theoretical argument about it takes more time for companies to mature and to get to the public market.

If they get to the public market, it becomes a strain on their talent pool and how secondaries are actually the solution for that.

The story I just told you or the example I just gave you is a way to solve it.

I'm sure there are other ways to do it.

But secondaries can be also a way for early stage firms, like CyberStarts, to return capital to limited partners.

You know, it makes these systems, it makes the markets more sophisticated.

And with that extra sophistication, you can create better solutions, first of all, for employees, for founders, and for limited partners.

And overall, I think that's a highly positive element in a business.

Look, it's not a secret that at CyberStarts, we have soldered secondary shares at companies like Wizz early on.

By the way, I regret I sold every single share at Wiz.

I regret it because, you know, if I sold it right now, I would show better performance for my limited partners.

But at the time, it looks like the right thing and the responsible thing for us to do.

And we did it.

What did you get wrong?

It were the early days for cyber starts.

And, you know, we talk about startups, you know, cyber starts or, you know, 20 VC.

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