Q Yeah. Um, ok, so now you get through the first year of COVID, twenty-twenty, you're in twenty-twenty-one, which is now the second year of COVID, and I guess you decide to try and re-engage with some of these investors that had originally gave you terms to see if maybe you could negotiate something a little bit better, is that right?
A Actually, there was one investor that we wanted to work with. So in the first process in early, uh, this guy, Trevor, he was just really smart, really engaged. Every meeting that he would come to, every discussion that we'd have with him, he'd leave us thinking about something. And so even in those early days, we felt like he, he helped contribute and shape the business. The funny thing is he turned us down the first, the first time around, not because of COVID or anything. He just said, you guys aren't ready yet. You know, I see a lot of potential in this business, but you aren't ready yet. So maybe we can talk in a couple of years or something like that, which totally baffled me because I was like, look at these numbers. I mean, this, this brand is exploding, but I mean, talk about discipline. This guy, he basically turned us down. We still wanted him. So we kept talking to him. We kept sort of the relationship warm. And then when it came time later on, I think it was, uh, October of Here's some updated information about our target sales. Here's how the business is doing. Do you want to, do you want to do a deal? And he responded, he came back with a really good, clean, fair deal.
AI assessment note: “Actually, there was one investor that we wanted to work with.”