Wow.

And I remember going to a friend of mine at Merrill Lynch and I'm saying, "Look, I, I read all these books about basic...

You know, I'm a New York State CPA, I understand finance.

How can you not make profit?" I said, "What, what are you guys doing?" And he said, "James, we're rewarding them for taking up the white space, okay? 'Cause we don't understand this whole internet thing and we're just gonna reward anybody who plays in it." And I see this painstakingly similar approach in this AI.

If, if you just mention AI, if you play in AI, you're gonna be rewarded.

Uh, and let's, let's look back on the dot com era.

Other than, you know, Priceline and eBay, most of them imploded 'cause they didn't have a business model.

Mm.

hired there.

Yeah.

Uh, he's been known to impulse hire, you know, I'm, I'm, you know, as you see people in the audience raising hands and saying, can I come to work for you? And Gary's like, yeah, right.

I'll send it, send an email to this guy over here.

Um, but, uh, I didn't know Gary, uh, when, when we met, um, I knew his brother, AJ.

In fact, I sat next to his brother basketball game.

That's how we met.

Is that correct in your mind?