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Prasad Chavali

Aug 4, 2026

7:27
Yeah, and I think ultimately when you have the context, I mean, that, that's kind of a double-edged sword, and I think that's, uh, on your side, Prasad, for, with, with Axle, is, like, when you see everything as a trend and you see it as percentages of your gross, as you see it as percentage of your operating, like, you, you really s- you can't hide from that, and it, it, it demystifies some of the process and the anti-transparency that happens with some of these transactions.
7:54
Yeah, definitely.
7:55
I think as you were saying, y- the revenue number is revenue number.
7:59
So some of the reports users keep asking, "Can you show a percentage of GP on every co- every row?" Like, why do you wanna see that as a percentage of GP? You're looking at, okay, this is 5%, 2% overhead expenses.
8:14
So that's when I realized you can look at a lot of numbers, but the ones you can really look at, you know as an operator which numbers or what certain percentage should be.
8:24
So I talked to somebody who said, "Oh, this has gotta be 27%." I'm like, "Oh my God, I don't even know how they actually have that wired in their mind to look at that exact numbers." So, so we had to build a lot of trending reports.
8:38
Over 12 months, expense trend, paying, uh, expenses by vendor.

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20:21
[laughs]
1:01
You know,
1:02
we started talking before the ad came into the forefront.
1:04
You're one of the OGs of AI.
1:06
You studied AI.
1:08
No, but when we started talking about, hey, the data, how do we protect the data, AI wasn't even in the conversation.
1:14
And anyway, yeah, so I actually had a motive, and it's funny.
1:19
I was looking at my original deck from 2019.
2:39
Okay.

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