Q Well, Benjamin, but seriously, so where'd you get that money from? How'd you fund all that initial development?
A So going back to my history, which, uh, put me in a good place to launch this company in the first place. I spent the first five years of my career at Macquarie Bank in energy capital markets, and it was a tremendous training. I lived through the financial crisis, which is fascinating to be in the front row for, and Uh, and also saw how finance was changing in some ways that were good and more conservative in some ways that were just not learning from the past and realized that fintech was really going to be the pipework that maybe is not the sexiest part of finance, but it's going to grease the wheels of capitalism, uh, and make finance more robust. And so that's what I wanted to create. Renewable energy presented a great blank slate of a market. And, uh, and so I took everything and basically invested, uh, my life savings into this.
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