Manny Medina
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No, so right, right.
So, no, we had our CR, we hired Mike Mooney from Centrify.
Yeah.
And he was involved in growing, you know, north of 300 million with HP and then with Imperva, he took him to almost 800 million in ARR.
And then recently he joined Centrify, but that got acquired by Tom Abravo.
So he's looking for, he's looking for a clean slate, something to take from zero to public himself.
Well, you're not exactly at zero anymore.
60 to public.
And, you know, the public numbers are a moving target, right?
So you can't, you know, 200 is a new 100.
So you can, it's no longer.
Is that right?
Is it, is that it?
It's really, you got to hit 200 million in ARR to have a, have a good IPO.
That's what Goldman is selling everybody.
Why do you think that is?
The amount of liquidity in the market is just stupid at this point.
Stay private for longer.
Funds are playing both sides now.
Funds are used to be public funds, hedge funds and so forth are playing the private markets now too.