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What I say matters to them is the return.

So what matters for us to grow the business is get the money, get the deal, improve the deal.

Going public does not help any of those things for us.

That's number one.

Two is we're really, I'm just so grateful.

I really, really am for my mentors.

I mean, Carl Thoma gave me and my partners the company.

And he mentored us.

So we wanna do the same thing for the next generation.

And we actually feel we'll make more money by investing behind the next generation when that time comes than by going public and having a great day and a great multiple and then what?

So, so far, we're just gonna stay where we are.

Yeah, it's such a divided place.

The turnouts in elections in Puerto Rico, when I was a kid, used to be like 90%.

It's a whole festival in the island when elections happen between the party that wants the status quo and the party that wants statehood.

Now the party that wants statehood has grown quite a bit, and some of the tax incentives of being kind of in this commonwealth status have gone away.

I'm going to say something I've never said before, and I do believe it'll be better for Puerto Rico to be a state if the U.S.

would allow that.