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There's one that stands out. He was a product director or going into a product director role. And I was recommended to him by another senior product person because he was kind of at a point where he was having to probably take, potentially take voluntary redundancy. The first thing I said to him is, why don't you come in and see me? And he came in and saw me. We had a coffee, got on really well. Lovely, lovely man, you know, and a very good friend of mine now. And he needed some advice and, you know, a bit of voice of reason, you know, a bit of a sounding board, a bit of a sanity check. And I, just, you know, I'd spend some time with him and he really, really appreciated that. It was actually just really about taking the time to understand him and what he needs and supported him through that next phase of his journey. I put him in front of about 3 or 4 opportunities and we went through the offers and he took the role. And basically at that point we ended up building a team for him of about 30 or 40 people. Since then I've built about 7 teams for him. I've been to, you know, family events. You know, he's a good friend. He is someone that I would call is, you know, people use the term sort of mate quite loosely, but He is a mate. He's a very, very friend of mine, and, um, you know, will be for a long