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Good to see you man.

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Nice

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To meet you. Likewise. What's your name, brother? Diego. Diego.

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So who are you with?

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Merchant Pro, right?

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Yeah. So kind of walk me through, I mean, you, you experienced the event,

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you've experienced everything that's gone on,

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and now we're at the reception area. What's for someone watching, what's,

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what would you say about the event? It's

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Great. I mean, uh, we're a Canadian lender, so, uh,

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we've been going to the ones in New York, uh, for the past two years. And, uh,

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yeah, we've struck up some really nice, uh, connections with, uh,

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with some lenders and brokers, um, where we send each other deals. So, yeah. No,

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it's, it's, it's really great. So

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For those that, you know, they're,

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they're new to all this and they're trying to grow and they're trying to,

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you know, pretty much expand their business, all that, what would you say is,

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uh, your recipe to success?

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Just talk to as many people as you can. Yeah. Make as many connections

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And, and it could be intimidating coming to an event like this,

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not knowing anyone and, and jumping in. So what's, what's a good icebreaker?

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Well, you know what,

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so it's actually my first time coming to one of these alone. Okay.

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I usually have, uh, my, uh, my, my, my colleague Amir. Um,

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we get to these together and create a little plan, you know,

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right before hitting the floor, like, you know, a little pump up session.

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But it's my first time, uh, at it alone. And, uh, yeah, just dive right in.

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I would say it's the best, best advice.

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Do you think you can ask some questions like, what's a merchant cash advance?

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Or do you think That's a little silly question that

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I think for the most part, like, you mean you're asking me what a,

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Yeah, like, like do you think That's a good question to break? Like, hey,

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like what's a, what's an M c A?

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It's a good, it's a good joke. I would say,

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I would expect most people here know what an M C A is.

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And then overall man, like, what, what's your takeaway from today?

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Um, yeah, no, I mean, listen, we're, we're, we're excited to probably hit the,

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uh, one in Miami in January. Um, we usually, like I said, go to the ones in, in,

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in New York, and we found them really, really beneficial, profitable, um,

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despite us being a Canadian lender, you know,

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we really have almost no business here. But, um, yeah, I would say, uh,

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yeah, these, these are great.