Gwen Whiting

So she's this woman was like not giving businesses away.

Yeah.

So the night before the deal closed officially at nine o'clock on Monday morning and everything was so touch and go and nailed later to like the last minute.

But on Friday afternoon, I like, it was all set up.

The, the wires were set, like the press release was set, like everything was set.

So on Friday afternoon, I,

I called the guy who did my like New York wedding dinner at the Waverly Inn and set up the back room at the Waverly Inn on Sunday night.

And I just started calling people and I said, hey, are you any chance you're free for a dinner on Sunday night?

And so all these people showed up and they just thought it was my husband and I invited them for dinner.

And I got my mom in and there was like 35 people there.

And, you know, my mom walks in and sees like my best friend from Boston is like, what are you doing here?

Everyone thought I was going to roll in with like a baby.

My mom was desperate.

It was a baby announcement.

And instead it was I had just sold my baby.

So it was a surprise event.

cell party the night before.

It was a very unbelievable gasping moment to just, and I was sitting at my desk chair and my open floor plan and my team didn't even know yet.

And I'm just like having this moment of like, holy shit, holy shit.

Yeah.