James McHugh
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many, many people.
I was waiting for the board decision that the JV was going ahead.
We had Salesforce's signature.
We were signed up and Scott came out and said, okay, we got the green light.
He said, I had one awkward question.
I said, what was that?
He said, well, they asked me, should we really be branding or co-branding with a alcohol business?
And he said, no, no, no.
In English, that's T-E-Q-U-I-L-A.
This is totally different.
So originally they were in the Salesforce space.
We kind of got going with Salesforce.
We co-invested with them three times and exited each of those businesses.
Like in Japan, we IPO'd the company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
So how much was that valued at?
When it IPO'd, it's gone down, but when it IPO'd, it was about 80 million.
It's still living.
Actually, it's resurgent at the moment.
So it's breaking now into AI.
The share price is moving up.