Q So, Casper, you used to agree to kind of intervene, um, and you went to George and said, I think it's better for you guys to separate. Um, what was, what was his reaction?
A George is a very generous person, and really what he wanted to do was to see this technology on runner's feet. So what we did is we agreed on a licensing agreement, but we also put a clause in there, luckily, that we could terminate the license agreement and, and, and purchase the patents outright. Looking back, it was a very easy and, and cost effective way of starting a running shoe company, because we didn't have to put all the money down, uh, to, to develop the technology we could build on, on what was already there, what George and Ollie had developed. But it was still, from our perspective back then, it was still a huge risk, because, um, myself, um, our third co-founder, David, you know, we, we had really high paying jobs, um,
AI assessment note: “George is a very generous person, and really what he wanted to do was to see”