Lonnie

And just with the makeup, the more money we were taking on, of course, dilution was starting to happen.

You know, I think that at that time, just with the investments that were coming in, there was a lot of protection of those investments.

And there was some equity that was being rolled out, but not to the point or level that you guys had recommended in an effort to raise the capital with you.

And so there definitely was a push from the leadership team.

I think we just had some level of protection from the board at that time and saying, hey, let's take everything we've done here and invest it and let's move forward and let's really get this thing going.

And so I think there was just a delay.

I don't believe it was ever, we don't want to give more.

It's just, now that we're on the playing field, you've got the equity, let's see how you play.

I think that was pretty much the deal during that time.

And Nathan, I think to the question too, later on, I'd say in the last three years,

I remember one of the meetings I had specifically with one of our investors and, you know, the tone was now changing into what do we need?

Who do you need?

Who do we need to make sure, you know, is still flying the plane?

Um, so we had those conversations, obviously Andy was at the top of that list and we had a couple of other people.

Um, and so we, you know, there was an openness to it and with both of our lead investors, actually, they were saying, okay, we've done a lot of work, you know, and we've made some progress clearly on the profitability side.

We've made some significant process, but now how do we take this to the next level?

And so you came in, you know, sometime after that.

So I think the appetite was open even more, and we were talking about percentages and

You know, what could we do for Andy?

And you came in and blew that out of the water in a positive way for us, I think.