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But honestly, I wasn't optimizing for devaluation.
I was optimizing for the players I want to work with and the types of relationships I want to have with the ongoing longer journey of the company.
And I even, I think in some parts of it, I decided to opt for a lower valuation to work with people that I wanted.
50% of their business.
If you're doing 15, 15.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's fine.
That's fine.
Uh, yeah, slightly better, but.
Yeah.
I'd rather not go into the full details, but, but yeah.
So I'd say two reasons, two main outlets, let's call it.
One is to get the right people and to build something for developers that is such a critical part of infrastructure and affects both the software development cycle and the security posture of an organization.
You really need to get this top-notch
and you need to build top-notch things, you need top-notch people.
So we don't skimp on the people that we bring and how we connect them to the organization.
So that's one, and that's basically classic.
And the other part is buying enough focus time.