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Because I think we got lucky in that the ownership and some of the cash flow positive really helped not dilute as much and not need as much capital. I also think some of the investors I know, someone I really respect is Jeff Wiener, who was my old boss at LinkedIn. Ivan and I actually tried very hard to get him to be a board member, you know, our first board member at Notion.