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This is SOLIDWORKS' product that John and his team built.

And that is the company that they built that ultimately became part of Dassault Systems.

And you can go past that building any time you want by the Waltham Reservoir there.

So this stuff, on the other extreme, can work.

so fast forward i joined a company called solidworks solidworks how many people ever heard of solidworks okay it's a 3d cad company based in waltham now today it's about a 600 million dollar company i joined it when we had our first sale of software so the product had just started to come to market and uh and joined the company and and had a bunch of roles there uh like most good startups For those that are either thinking of joining a startup or are joining a startup, you want a lot of good utility players early on.

So I had a bunch of roles in marketing, sales, building the partner development platform, the partner application area.

And we were ultimately acquired by Dassault Systems.

And we ran it as a separate company.

But then we got the Barclays, and that was really a turning point because we took all those experiences and by that time, you know, you know, we, we got parametric modeling down.

John Cerone, my partner, you know, he was, he was working in, in, along with Brian Sweeney, working in, and Adam Modysett was working in Dassault Systemes CATIA.

And, you know, we had started out with Digital Project, 'cause Frank Gehry had, you know, he realized how this software could really help him achieve what he, he wanted to do with his designs.

But basically, Digital Project took all the secret sauce out of what Dassault had, had been doing and we were like, "We want the real CATIA," so we got it.

Right.

And so, uh, so SPICE is still gonna be useful, and, um, Verilog will be useful, and simulators will be useful, and, you know, design compilers and, and, you know, Photoshop and AutoCAD and, you know, s- uh, Dassault Catia and-

Right

... all the Siemens tools.

And we're off out to market at the moment for a lot of other partners.

And we have Dassault Systems who provide our engineering digital part of the design space as well.

Their 3DX platform is our digital integration, digital print platform.

So we've got all of the parts together.

Let's say there's a German competitor of Schneider, maybe that's Siemens.

Like, are they gonna say, "We're gonna go with Schneider?" Or are they gonna go to Dassault Systems, which is kind of the competitor there, or, or one of Autodesk's products? I, I get a little nervous about that.

But-

Yeah, I do think it-