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Welcome back guys. I'm here with Julia Freeman and Elizabeth Sabatini from AKAs.

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Ladies, thank you for being here. Tell me about your time here so far.

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It's been fantastic. Really good event.

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Phenomenal people that we've met and are really good overall kind of conference

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being sponsored by you all. So thank you for having us.

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Awesome. So for those that don't know,

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just tell me a little bit about Oculus and what you guys do.

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Sure.

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Uh, we automate lending decisioning by digitizing documents, uh,

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providing cash flow analytics that allow funders and brokers to make highly

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accurate, quick decisions. Cuz we know in this, uh,

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industry time is of the essence, um, and these funders and brokers want to,

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um, help businesses grow and their clients grow and, and,

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and those decisions happening quickly allow them to do that.

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Exactly. So being that it, this is a male led industry,

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what is it like for both of you ladies to be, you know,

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kind of running it in your own skin?

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I'm happy to start and then I'll pass it, Julia. Um,

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I think it's really exciting. I think it offers us a lot of, um,

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advantages as our perspectives are, are of course,

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different sometimes than our male counterparts. Um,

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and I do find just the space overall being a woman,

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people are really open and receptive to diversity and, and, and, um,

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you know, pushing that agenda forward.

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Right. Women definitely offer a different perspective than a lot of men in this

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industry, so we definitely need to be here. Um, another question.

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How did you guys get into the industry?

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Do you want me to start to Yeah, go for it. Um, it happened honestly,

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very organically. Okay. I did not know necessarily what I wanted to do, um,

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once I finished my schooling. Um,

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and I think this offered a great opportunity to be in the financial services

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space, but also focus on technology and solutions that help financial services.

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And Julia, how about you? How'd you get involved?

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I had come from a background in other types of software sales. Okay.

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And had been following Qualys for quite some time.

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I know that Liz has been a veteran for almost the entire companies exist since

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nearly nine years ago.

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So I had been really interested in what the tech was offering and wanted to be a

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part of a team that was making faster,

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more equitable decisions for lenders and consumers overall. Mm-hmm.

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And ultimately creating a lot of value for this space.

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So it's exciting to be here. Great.

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And how has that timeline kind of been since you, um,

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started at Oculus in the beginning, like nine years ago, like she said?

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How has that been from then to now?

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Uh, it's been an exciting ride. I don't think, uh,

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our early founding team necessarily even knew we were gonna turn into a FinTech

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company. Um, the use case had, you know, evolved a bit, but the solution,

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um, in its essence has always stayed the same. Providing, you know,

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our end users and our customers highly accurate data to make decisions. Um,

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so I've learned a lot. I've made really, you know, great connections. Um,

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and I'm, I'm really happy about sort of the splash we made right to date.

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And how has the event been going for you ladies? So far,

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Really wonderful. I mean, it's great to see customers face to face.

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I know with the pandemic we didn't always have that chance, um,

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to do in-person events or grab coffee and have a dinner. Um,

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so on the customer success side, which is the team I'm part of, I'm,

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I'm looking forward to having a lot more FaceTime with customers today. Great.

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Awesome.