Q That's a, that's a pretty diverse portfolio. I like it. Um, So, when you guys, um, you know, think about acquiring startups, what do you guys, um, look at? Like, what is an ideal acquisition target for Calm Capital?
A Yeah, I think we first start with, like, what's a, is it a good business? And we kind of have this underlying thing, um, you know, good businesses rarely go out of business. Great companies sometimes go out of business, but good businesses rarely go out of business, so, you know, profitable, cash flowing, pretty easy to manage, has, you know, some kind of growth trajectory versus going backwards, so that's kind of where we start, and then You know, looking at the, the people aspect of it, you know, we also don't necessarily want to be, uh, you know, operators. So if, if the fat, if this, if the sellers, if the selling founders are kind of leaving, we start recruiting like a CEO or a manager kind of from day one, they they're usually involved in due diligence with us. So it's a good fit, you know, or there's a kind of a team in place that maybe there's someone there that can kind of get promoted into that manager level or. In some cases, you know, we're finding where the founders just want to put some money in the bank, but they still want to keep working on the business. And in that case, we're, you know, fine with them sticking around.
AI assessment note: “profitable, cash flowing, pretty easy to manage, has, you know, some kind of growth trajectory”