on the opens i literally did a search for this last week and i found a yc company that was doing like um an infrastructure play for this type of thing for companies so you could have like your whole team record everything they do and then you know tell you opportunities but there were some open source projects that i think are looking to do this and there was the company god i had them on the pot a couple times they got bought but they were going to record your entire screen and they had a pendant too it's very controversial company they wound up getting sold

Yeah.

Well, yeah, I think it is a pretty controversial, uh, controversial thing, but, uh, I, you know, just when you kind of look at our existence and what we do as humans and, uh, we're like a collection of our memories and context that we have, and we're like a, a computer, you know, with attached memory essentially, but our memory is like very fallible.

You know, we, we might have this conversation, remember 10% of it later, at least in detail.

Right.

And then now, what do I do? I'm an AI CEO running Deepgram, talking to customers, doing all these things, and back-to-back meetings all day, every day.

There's no hope for me to remember all of these things, actually.

So, I mean, yeah, like what is the thinking here, Scott? Are these systems being purposefully designed to invade your privacy?

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Yeah.

It was, like, really bad.... and then they over — after two years, they would get to, like, sixty-eight percent.

But is there something you think you could have done where it could be $1,000 a share right now? Was there a 10x thing that you're like, oh, I wish I could have done this or something?

Yeah, we went through some evolutions where in 2009, we went public.

2013, we became a component of the S&P 500.

And at the beginning of the journey for me, if you had told me that we were going to be an S&P 500 company, I would have just thought you were crazy.

How in the world could that happen? But what I would say about the journey is we had a playbook that fundamentally sort of featured five steps in it.

The first one was to try to get as much proprietary data as we could.

The second was to turn the data, whether proprietary or public or mixing them all together into what I call analytic objects that became kind of industry standard, scalar value kinds of things that customers would use, pull into their decisioning.

I'm not sure.