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…Of course, you ended up working for Microsoft for many years. Yeah, you’re right. That was the foray into Seattle for me. I didn't take anything for granted because I realized we’re in a world of plenty right now, we were just talking about how much capital is available that Convoy’s been able to raise a lot of money. Everyone that's graduated in the last 10 years has only lived in an environment where everything's up into the right effectively. I've lived through two other cycles now. One I was, again, just out of college months later, but it's made me never take for granted anything we're doing. I don't rest and feel like we're there. We got to build a really healthy, sustainable business and hurry, and we're taking a big swing. The more money you raise and the bigger the opportunity you go after, the more challenges you face in terms of getting there. That's why we're spending time on this. You read the headlines about Convoy and you'd think like “Oh, man. What an emblematic of where we are in the cycle and hotshot entrepreneur from Amazon, raising all this money.” I would say that’s not thinking like you've lived through all this and in a way that most entrepreneurs don't have right now. Microsoft, then you're like, “I'm going to go back to do the startup thing again” Wavii, another startup, we were investors when I was at Madrona, great product idea, didn't end up realizing its vision, gets acquired by Google.…

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