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And it all started with Hank Seale having an idea.

I assume there were some other folks that were involved in that.

Yeah, look, honestly, I was not the idea guy.

I was there in the beginning innings to help us put it together and execute on it.

But there were people that had the vision.

So I'll call out a few of those.

In addition to Hank, Jonathan Price, our current CFO, was running a lot of our emerging businesses at the time, and he was very passionate about it.

People like Greg Barnell, Ryan Hollister, Brian Mago were kind of the technical brains with what we were doing around the SDK.

And there were many others kind of thinking about the go to market programs that we were trying to put together, like the Jody McCrary's of the world that were that were key to our early days.

You know, the other thing is I've worked for a lot of technology vendors.

It's really hard for the one, especially publicly traded vendors.

to play the long game, to make investments and not put pressure on revenue.

Well, Q2, we were fortunate.

We had the full support of the executive leadership team.

They let us build Innovation Studio the right way without too much pressure in the early days on revenue and bookings.

We didn't have to take shortcuts, which is pretty amazing.

So we got to think about it and do it right for the long term.

And so I really respect the leadership team and all those people that had a vision and took the risk.

And now I get the honor of working with the team every day.

And it really has been one of the favorite things I've done in my career.

So kudos to all of those people that made it happen.