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Eric Brock: Yeah, sure. So, you know, we really, we're using the term operating platform. We think platform companies are the way to scale these capabilities, which are critical across military, home and security, public safety, critical infrastructure, industrial markets. And it has to be a platform company because of what I was just saying earlier. It's really about driving the efficiency of operating capital. To have relevance in the supply chain, you have to have real revenue, you have to have real volumes. Thank you. Thank you. Quickly you realize it is a game about scale and we're never going to be able to deliver these critical technologies without operating platforms. We think the operational and financial model of companies like Andas is the winner and it just all comes down to that scale. Do you get the unit economics? Now, there's another aspect of this is critical. You open the newspaper every day, social media feeds, wherever you see, you realize that we need to re-industrialize America. And what does re-industrialization mean? We need the supply chain, which of course we know is in China. And I'd also add that we're seeing our adversaries, Russia, Iran, with the help of China, building industrial capabilities around the technologies I'm talking about. So it's really essential that we're going to be building this capability in the United States. We can't do it with a cottage industry. If we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of unmanned systems players, we're never going to get the scale so the component suppliers, the contract manufacturers, the other service providers can engage with each company. So really what we're doing, Anthony, is moving from a really productive cycle of venture-backed technology development. To building businesses, and that's where growth capital comes into play, and that's where the investors here come into play. The Nasdaq is going to be a critical conduit to scaling the unmanned sector, but also re-industrializing America.

The Nasdaq is going to be a critical conduit to scaling the unmanned sector, but also re-industrializing America.

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