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Frank, so this is your first time here at the San Diego Connect Show.

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Tell me about your time here So far.

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We've had a great time. We've made some great connections. Uh, we are, uh,

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looking at people that we've never seen before, and, uh, it's, uh, I, I,

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I really enjoyed our time here. It's just different,

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smaller setting gives you more opportunity to really have a conversation. So,

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uh, we, we love that. We, uh, we're coming back next year.

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Of course, you have no choice.

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That's right, that's right.

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So, how has the industry been treating your company so far?

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There's been a lot of speculations and talk around the event, uh, recession.

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That's always a topic, inflation.

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How have you guys been able to manage that and, um,

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contain growth within the company?

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Absolutely. So we spoke about that before and, uh,

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the expectation for this year was that it's gonna be a down year for us and for

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the industry. And that, uh,

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we're gonna experience a downturn and a slow down of the economy. We've, we,

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we've seen the opposite, right? So over the past, uh, two quarters, uh,

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we've seen a lot of growth, a lot of customers, uh,

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looking for the product that we have and, uh, the vintages and, uh, the,

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the performance has been great. So, uh, we're very happy to see, uh,

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what's happening now. I, I think that, uh,

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there's a lot of demand for what we do and, uh, yeah, I, I,

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I guess the experts were wrong. Yeah,

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I, I think I've been hearing a lot of mixed reviews from some people that are

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saying, yeah, we're getting a lot of growth right now.

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And then others are saying, oh, we're not doing too good, or,

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the industry's a little slow right now. What do you have to say about that?

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I guess it,

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it just depends on your partnerships and it depends the way you run your

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business. So we have great partners, we have great submission, uh, uh,

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partners that, uh, just do great business with us. We, we treat 'em well, and,

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uh, they're doing good. So we're doing good. Our customers are happy,

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so they keep coming back. So, uh, I think, uh, it, it really comes down to that,

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right? So the, those partnerships, uh,

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and just the way you operate your business, we, uh, we always, uh,

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are submission partners, first customers, and, uh, I,

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I think it's a winning formula and maybe that's why we're having a good year,

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uh, and we're performing well.