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2693.207 - 2718.44 Eric Vishria

People will come in and they have like a million and a half and they're talking about their net dollar retention or whatever. It doesn't matter. In none of that stuff, in not a single company, I think I've worked on five companies that have gone from zero to more than 200 in revenue. And in not a single case did the economics at the very early stage extrapolate all the way. It's just not a thing.