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Now it's October because companies have a January fiscal year end.
That's something that SaaS companies did a while ago.
But as we come to the end of October, instead of me having to call every single partner across our portfolio of 60 companies,
I just know the bookings results.
And you kind of can consume that pretty quickly and say, oh, is this, are we in good trends?
And that really informs how you invest in companies as well.
All your pipeline of deals is the industry slowing down, are customers buying more?
But the ability to consume information very quickly and data is how we use it.
That would be pretty cool.
I mean, we would.
And I've heard some VC firms have done that as well.
And this IC member shows up and then has the most power.
And how could they possibly be wrong?
They have all the data, the super brain.
That would be fun to do at some point.
The thing is, see, Denny, the thing is, all these things are very helpful right now.
But you try to think of your time during the day.
I always tell our team, private equity, you have three things to do.
Get the money, get the deal, and improve the deal.
If in your 18 hour day, if you really want to stretch it that way, seven days a week trying to crush it and make money for LPs in an ultra competitive market, you're not spending time on those three,