For people here who do not know you and have not gone through some of this stuff, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Mike, I too am a recruiter at heart.

Born and raised that way, always will be in my DNA.

I can't help myself.

Um, you know, there's a saying we had somebody on from, uh, that, that trains recruiters to be even better.

And, um, you know, there's this, there's the phrase ABC always be closing.

Um, It's something that I have not strayed too far from.

And, you know, I know you sort of coined, I assume you coined this term, right? Because I know kind of, as I looked in, but like, I know you use the term kind of human infrastructure and how it plays in, which we hear about everything else when it comes to infrastructure, but like help me and help listeners understand, like what is human infrastructure?

So, Eric, why don't we just start with you just giving the listeners a little bit about your background and how you got to where you are with Belong HQ.

So I could go through that set of questions in an interview style, you know, tell me about yourself.

But I think there are a couple of things that are worth calling out, and part of it will make sense in a little bit.

I grew up in an environment where...

The role of the human in a system was always important.

By that, I mean my dad's PhD was in group dynamics.

I mean, his PhD was at org psych.

So I just see a lot of parallels and I see a lot of, you know, overlap with what I'm seeing in terms of how people are really preparing for this, you know, impending transformation.

Can you tell the audience a little bit about yourself and sort of how you got to this point in your career?

Sure.

So it's kind of accidental.

I didn't think that I was going to write a book and found a company based on that, but I...

I started off my career in the TA space, and then that evolved over time where I led global TA teams, particularly in the tech sector, through rapid growth, rapid transformation.

My last in-house role was with a well-funded $700 million investment came from Andreessen Horvitz into this VC-backed organization, where we were trying to create a two-sided labor marketplace, a hundred, I'm sorry, a million people on one platform, which is incredible.

The fact that it would be the trades even better.

So what has the response been from CFOs that you've spoken with?