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I would also say there were hard times certainly, and I've said it on mic, on publicly before that there was a time I borrowed money from my wife to pay for salaries. So, but the main lesson over time is that if you find growth, you'll find people to fund you. So the first round we took was from Mr. Jim Ovia actually, venture cap- uh, Quantum Capital. And um, when we decided that we were gonna start Moniepoint, we wanted to have some capital as buffer for operations while we pause or stop the banking business. And fortunately for us, Mr. Jim Ovia was already interested in fintech because- Yeah, no, he's a tech guy. He was one of the first investors- Yeah, yeah in Interswitch. So he knows the story. So when he was seeing all the new tech things, he was looking for something- mm to do. And um, our pitch deck came up, came across his desk. He was very interested in us. And what were you pitching? Then we were pitching, hmm, good question. Because we had not yet fully started Moniepoint then- Yeah, we're pitching to becoming like a full switch. Okay. A switch then. That's what we were pitching because we had not yet become, you know, started Moniepoint then. Right. But I think what he found, and that's maybe one of our helpers, what he found was that, I think this is another Interswitch in the making. Yeah. He did some findings in Zenith Bank and because we've done a project in Zenith Bank and people had high rating of us, he got the confidence. And he was like, stop raising. Take this $5.5 million then. How much is that? 2 billion, I can't remember how much was it then. At whatever, I can't remember, maybe it was 2 or 4 billion then. Take this one, take 20% of your company and uh, go and build. And the whole deal was done in maybe a month or so. Like 6 weeks- Wow or 8 weeks. Very fast.