Is that a net positive or net negative or to be determined or what are you seeing?

Yeah, I mean, I am a true believer that it's a net positive.

That's the whole reason I wanted to help lead the charge as consolidation started as one of the first consolidators out of the gate.

Because to me, I just see it as it just creates more opportunity.

You know, our industry for the 15 years I was in it before COVID and then consolidation began, we'd always complain to each other.

We'd be at trade shows and we're like, why don't we get any respect? You know, why are we the redheaded stepchild of the trades? And, you know, we know what we're doing is cool.

Why aren't people seeing it? And, you know, I think for me, why I wanted to help start the trend of consolidation is because as I started working through the idea, with investors that came in that were talking to me about it, I started to see chicken or egg, like why has our industry been this way? And what I saw was the reason these things that we complain about exist is because We've never had companies at scale that had to solve for those.

And if you are trusting vendors who are using AI, that there are really good practices in place to make sure that there's the stability and the security and that these companies are even going to be around a year or two from now.