Yeah

... and, and it worked.

It was efficient.

It works, but it's not scalable.

And it always blew my mind that in this advanced age of technology and having come through the whole, uh, second evolution of electronifying the markets when I came out of school, I think that, um, that just sort of defeated the purpose of what we were trying to build.

So, um, so, so, you know, Chris' team, they had been going through a real transformation, um, again, early two thousands.

They were a client of mine at Elysium at the time, and I really enjoyed working with them, and I saw that they were the future.

This is the interoperability that I'm seeing, uh, the evolution of.