Will Bressman
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And I think we ended up accomplishing that because...
For us, it gave us that starting point.
I think he was very happy with the outcome.
No, no, we stayed in touch.
And he's a great guy.
And I don't think he'll feel that way.
But no, it was, you know, again, these are cliches, but it was really sort of a win-win scenario.
We partnered with a private equity firm here in New York called Aquiline Capital Partners.
And the idea really with joining with them was to give us that next phase of capital and really kind of expand our capabilities and our ability to serve the market.
So it was sort of a transaction, so to speak, but with the idea of continuing to scale what we're doing even more than where we were today.
Yeah, I think they were excited and we were excited to be able to do that.
Obviously, you know, we got the backing of those people when we just had a hope and a dream.
So it was nice to be able to reward them.
But I think for us, we were also realizing that to really capture what the opportunity was in this industry, joining with someone that had a little bit more industry expertise and
the ability to kind of scale it going forward was the right move for the company.
So, you know, I'll use the same cliche.
It had that kind of win-win feel of the original search investors felt very pumped, but I think we felt like this positions us to go forward in a very nice and exciting manner.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah.
I really think very...