Robert Peston

We've been really excited to see demand, both across the Mag 7, six out of seven of the Mag 7 actually are customers, and we're really happy about that.

But then also staples of the real economy, like Starbucks and PwC and Hilton and Budweiser, and then many digital natives, like Stripe, Adobe, Uber, NVIDIA, Shopify, and others like that.

I'm going to jump in there, Ed, just quickly.

Go for it, please.

You're not answering exactly my question.

Has anyone been trying to buy you?

I can't talk about things like that here.

You can talk about them here.

Bloomberg Tech is the right place for it.

What you've been doing is shopping yourself.

I find that very interesting.

You used M&A to address your own talent requirements, growth by design.

What was behind that move and what was the problem you were trying to solve for in doing that?

Growth by Design was a talent agency that we had worked with for a long time and the folks that were running that business, we got to know over many months working with them on building the team.

They're respected recruiting leaders in the industry and we started talking with them a few months ago about whether they would come in house and join us to lead talent for us.

And this is a strategy that we've taken kind of across the board, whether it be in R&D, go-to-market, G&A.

We look for the best people in our industry, and sometimes, conveniently or inconveniently, they're running their own companies.

What's so interesting is how fierce the talent fight has been in many ways, Michael.

Talk to us about where you are getting your talent from, how you're going to see that growth by design is going to bring on even more of the best people to work and build your business.

Still largely folks that join us, we reach out to.