Kevin Tawil

And this is somebody you're going to have to deal with for the next years.

Are you sure you want to go through with it?

I didn't even hesitate.

Yeah.

I can endure a lot of pain if the value is there.

And we just knew the value was going to be there.

That's why we're willing to stretch in terms of the size of this deal as a percent of our enterprise value.

And we were marrying this organization.

I knew there were going to be challenges with it, but I felt like we'll figure that out in the future.

But let's create value in the near term.

And lo and behold, we went ahead and closed the deal.

And fortunately, both things came true.

We created a lot of value and the marriage was fraught.

It didn't work out very well.

That went shockingly smoothly.

We had a couple months before close to line that up.

And this is a big deal.

We hired some advisors and experts in Bain and they helped us with the merger integration process and how to manage that because we hadn't really done anything this big before.

And

And probably the most important element of that integration being successful was getting aligned with their CEO, Chuck Cloud.