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And more often than not, you say, I thought there was going to be a great hire. It's a good hire. Like I'm happy. I'm happy we have them. And the question there is what do you do to get the absolute best work from this person? And will they have the Steve Jobs quote, A players hire A players, B players hire C players is profoundly true. There should be an asterisk explaining why this is true.