Mike Zisman
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It's unbelievable.
Cluj.
In the town of Cluj.
Just think about Cluj as the Silicon Valley of Romania.
So you have Bucharest in the south.
Cluj is kind of the university center.
It's where many of the universities are.
An enormous number of, you know, outsourcing firms and things like that.
And so we're able to still maintain, you know, very high retention.
One other thing I would say is at 300 people, we're still totally virtual.
We have no offices.
you know, I just think, you know, to me, it's, it's one big team.
We're all in it together.
That is the playbook.
And, you know, fortunately, when I sold my first company to Lotus, the venture capital firms that had financed SoftSwitch invited me to become a limited partner in their firms.
So I've been a limited partner in venture capital and private equity firms for like 25 years.
And so I know the drill.
I know the model.
I've been on both sides of the table.
And yes, I mean, the big PE firms want you to be a platform and an aggregate.