Steve Tuck

Because if it had been easier to raise, it would have been easier to have investors that didn't have quite the conviction.

Totally.

Or if it had been a- It shook out a bunch.

It shook out people that would have been poor fits.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, the thing that's kind of wild is that we- I mean, we just-

Oh, yeah, no, not ready for this.

Just not ready for this.

And because they're not ready for the levels of technical risk involved.

And, you know, we've always been very transparent about, we've always been, let the passengers know exactly the waves we're going through.

But the, we've gotten, I think, really, really lucky.

And, you know, you and I can, there are lots of investors that would have not been, but we kind of self-selected for the ones that are been really,

which has been great.

We've been very, very, very fortunate in that regard.

And then, so the ability to raise that kind of money with that- Keeping the same structure of the company.

Keeping the same structure and not having to go to new investors-

Now, the Series C, raising it did have challenges that we didn't have in the Series B.

Um, and it was challenging for some different reasons, but I think it was actually for us both.

I mean, it was, uh, there was some challenges.