Kevin Tawil

It was, here's the main contract terms.

Here's your position.

Ray, seller's name.

And then here's what we expect.

GTE will say, this should be your response.

It was sort of a back and forth.

And it was probably 60 pages.

And we handed it up to Ray, asked him to review it in preparation for his contract.

We would actually rev it with him.

And it was probably overkill, but it was important to us.

We needed to get that contract signed to get the deal closed.

And it happened.

And sure enough, two months later, July of 1995, we got the deal closed.

It was eye-opening, to say the least.

Spending those two months sitting next to Ray, we got a chance to feel the sense of the organization, got to know the people.

So it wasn't quite as hard cut, but now we're in charge.

There was some element of like, what do you do?

What do you do now?

And we were really lucky, Will.

We had this amazing board of directors that, honestly, I still marvel at how talented a board we were able to pull together for such a small company and for Gemini.