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…What does the selection process look like? It involves a lot of debate, which I think is really fun. Our meetings, everyone's laughing the whole time. I think that's one of the most important things: the creative process has to be fun. Otherwise, what are we doing anyways? I think we try to debate and explore ideas and build on each other's ideas. There's no filter process. If you've got something you want to bring to design meeting, have at it, and we'll talk about it and play around with it. Sometimes we also are like, "Oh, that's interesting, but maybe another time." It comes up another two years later or three years later, we're like, "Oh man, you remember that thing we were kicking around? Maybe we should build on that now." I think it's really just an iterative process of exploring new ideas. Brian Armstrong talked here about how when the USDC idea was pitched to him, he was like, "I'm not sure. Sounds kind of silly. But, sure, if you guys want to do it, then go for it." Obviously, that's become one of the biggest things out of Coinbase. Do you have a similar story where there was an idea that you initially weren't so hot on, but ended up being—…

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