Steve Tuck

Oh, come on.

Come on.

No, I would be... There is like this kind of protracted period where it's kind of hanging out there for like 15 or 20 minutes and you can kind of see it having a limited number of upvotes.

Maybe the world is just kind of sick of it.

I can't really blame them at some level.

It's like, these guys again.

Did they just do this?

Um, but so anyway, that's it.

But I think we want to backtrack a little bit and maybe Adam, we can, um, explain why we raised the C so quickly after the B because I think, I, I, I think it's fair to say, Steve, that everybody, including employees was surprised by this.

Um, I mean, Adam, I think it's fair to say that employees did not see this coming.

So Steve, why did we raise?

So we raised $100 million B.

in July.

And here we are, not six months later, raising a $200 million Series C. I mean, have we not seen Silicon Valley?

No, of course we've seen.

You're saying I could have raised less?

I could have raised less?

Fuck.

I would say that one of the reasons it's not pleasant is that because it's so enticing.

I mean, and I'm sure we've described this over the years before, but one of the problems we have at Oxide is that individual partners at VC firms fall head over heels in love with us.