Ryan Urban
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But no, that security deposit gets spread out over the lease.
So that that's not part of your your basic P&L on an ongoing basis.
Salaries of employees are put in a P&L.
Oh, not at all.
No, everything that should be included in a P&L is included in a P&L.
A security deposit and lease is not included in a P&L under any accounting standards.
So we follow everything that's an actual cost, whether it's a person, whether it's a desk, everything's in a regular P&L.
Office space is included in our P&L, but I'm saying the security deposit costs us over $3 million, which is not a P&L line item.
No, no, that would be crazy.
No, no.
Why do they require such a high security deposit?
Well, we have a 32,000 square foot floor here.
Okay.
And New York is just very competitive.
The price per square foot is somewhere between $60 and $80.
Wow.
So it's a lot.
We pay a few million dollars a year in rent, which does get counted on our P&L.
So we needed to absorb that rent and that one-time $3.5 million security deposit.
Uh, look, I choose one medium, which is email.