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Yeah, so we solved what I guess people call the chicken and egg problem or the cold start problem in marketplaces by doing a couple of things. In the early days, we wanted to make sure that drivers, when they were sitting around, were paid for that time. So in the early days, we paid a driver $20 or $30 an hour to sit there. And this lasted probably 60 or 90 days into a market launch.