John O'Shull
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Yeah.
So John, you're super active in the Colorado sort of startup ecosystem.
Is that how you came across GEF?
How'd they find you?
You know, they found me.
Yes.
I mean, I'm connected with the startup world for sure.
I'm connected with a ton of private equity firms.
And it's a very incestual kind of group.
You know, one firm will be talking to another firm and say, hey, you need to talk to this, you know, to this guy, etc.
And that's how I ran into into GEF.
So they, why do they make a connection and say, well, this XCRM and sales automation guy will be a great thing to put on derived systems.
How did that connection happen?
You know, it's about leadership, quite frankly.
You know, if you look at derived systems, derived systems have been around for a long time.
So it's not a startup.
It actually, GEF launched this in 2013.
It was a combination of a couple of different companies coming together.
So I'll give you that story here in a second.
But