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When was it that you got exposed for the first time to hardware? Is that, you know, you mentioned using Kuka and FANUC robots. These are industrial robots that are used to like pick a place or Weld or do all this stuff. And I imagine, I can imagine how you use that for animation. But when was it you're like, OK, we gotta make the jump of quality and go and go and automate some of the animation. Bring me down. Yeah. So, you know, I watched, I was ignored. I grew up with with the original Star Wars and I remembered that, you know, there used to be a lot of documentaries on this. There was a motion control rig that was used to shoot the a lot of the the principal photography for Star Wars. But specifically the scene where would Skywalker is, is blowing up the Death Star. He's going through the trench and that was all computer controlled. Teamwork and that was done on a system was actually done in in Marin, which is about half an hour from here. Those were bespoke machines that were $1,000,000, you know, robots essentially with cameras on them. And it was about 2008. The economy had crashed in America. And I was shopping on eBay and I've realized by these industrial welding robots for pennies on the dollar, you know, that being like $10, 000. These are systems that should have been 80 thousand $90,000. So let's get one. And so I bought one off of eBay and it showed up on the giant truck. And then we had to kind of figure out if it was useful for anything. But, you know, the thesis was, well, why? Why can't I use a welding robot? I've seen these videos of these things. They're incredibly fast. They're incredibly precise. Why don't we put a camera on that and see if we can do the same thing that these guys did, you know, 25 years ago. Both experiences are being acquired by Google like all those, all those who lived this. And by the way, I really want to know also the bad sides of it. If you have any 'cause you know, it's been a while ago. Happened very quick. Google was a customer of mine. We would shoot videos for that. And so we were, we were known inside of Google as people that had this kind of crazy technology, these robots. Who were also just doing traditional design work for them and traditional Ad 360 advertising, France telecom tools and some specialized in topography really for the Android phones that were coming out at that point. We did a lot of shooting out of them so they knew us. Where are you spending most of your time right now? I'm very curious. Ohh, spending most of my time sitting in front of a Zoom station, you know, talking to my remote company. Where we're all remote. So I spend my entire day sitting, unfortunately, in a chair staring at a rectangle, speaking to human beings through an artificial interface. What is your advice for a young founder? That it's building something hard because it's building in something in an industry that's hard to crack. It's building a solution that it's hard to make. And it's building a team that it's, you know, hard to put together for the, you know, for mentioned 2 reasons. Choice. I mean a lot of people. Give up pretty early and I think that so maybe maybe the message here is like tenacity matters, you know, if that's that's the way you're wired. And so I heard an anecdote, you know, you know, had percent of venture backed companies succeed and investor told me once, you know, this is true or not, but I kind it is and I've I've I've I've adopted it and an alliance with my thesis. So I'm sticking with it. But the the investor told me he says, you know. We have the the reality is it's not that 10% of the companies aren't onto something brilliant or, or have you know product market fit or there's some. External existential problem with the company. The majority of companies that fail or because the founder moves on this thing else.