Patrick Campbell

Adobe, HubSpot, Salesforce, Square, Adyen,

That's great.

I think those were the most obvious ones.

I don't know.

There's probably some off-the-wall ones I'm not remembering.

Oh, some of the RevBase financing guys, Pipe, Capchase of recent, they were on the slide as well.

And it doesn't mean you're selling to any of these people.

It just means that these are the people that if I get into a process, all of a sudden, these are the people I contact or the people I get back-channeled to and stuff like that.

And so

Yeah, December and the first part of January was not what I expected it to be.

Basically what ended up happening is we were really excited about Paddle and we got over the whole ego part of like, oh yeah, we can get more resources by joining forces.

And I've always liked Christian and the missions are very, very similar, different entry points, but very, very similar.

And so all of a sudden it's turned into like, okay, we're running a process.

So like back channeling, all these other things, getting the intros, playing the game.

I got to the point like towards the end of that first week where I was just like emailing people.

I was like, Hey, this is what's happening.

Like, if you want to talk, let me know.

Rather than like doing the whole, like, Oh my God, let me get someone to intro and suggest that we're like in a process.

Cause I think like there's enough urgency with a lot of this stuff.

Like when you have like a suitor, um,