Q And, uh, Nitin, now you first, and then I'll come to Rajiv on this. Uh, How did Antler happen? Like, is it that, uh, you know, they had few people in mind of which you and Rajiv were the top two, or it was just that they built, co-built it with you.
A I, I hope we were their top two. No, I think that, uh, so, so for those less familiar, Antler is, uh, probably the fastest growing early stage platform in the world. We are not the oldest or largest, but in five years, we are now in 20 countries. It was started by Magnus Grimeland, who was a classmate of Mark Zuckerberg and had seen sort of those kinds of journeys and built a large company called Zalora in Southeast Asia. And, you know, the group that, uh, that, that started Antler really had this vision of a federated network of funds in different countries. So enable this kind of a platform where different countries can have slight differences. And, you know, each of these operations is built from the ground up, but then they're connected with a, With a powerful network that enables, uh, people, capital, brand, and technology. And so that was, uh, you know, both of us separately, as we started to, uh, come to this conclusion as to what we wanted to do, we're also spending time with Antler and realized that, uh, the values were very consistent. And this notion of, you know, especially that global building in India for the world fit very well with, uh, you know, Each, each angel, each syndicate, we, we, we obviously respect so many people in the ecosystem. We've worked with them, done deals together, and they all have fantastic strengths, right? But, ah, but there is obviously …
AI assessment note: “both of us separately... were also spending time with Antler and realized that”