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So guys, hey, welcome to our episode of the top.

We're excited today have Patrick Campbell and Christian with Paddle.

Again, obviously, major deal recently announced.

And it's obviously exciting and certainly inspirational.

But my hope today is to drill deeper into origin stories of both the companies.

And then leap forward back to today.

What does 2023 look like in this space they're both now playing together in? So we're going to jump into all that today, Christian. Patrick,

you're ready to take us to the top? Laika, let's go. Let's go. Sweet. So obviously,

headlined, if you guys haven't read in the news, obviously you guys, Patrick, you sold your company to paddle here recently. You chose

to put a $200 million deal price. Just I guess, tell me quickly why putting that price out was

important. And then let's go to origin stories about profit well and paddle. Yeah, definitely.

So it was one of those things we're one. I think it's a good win for the team. We were a little

non-specific, like over $200 million because also like we're continuing to work on a team. We were a little non-specific, like over 200 million because also like we're

continuing to work on a team. And so it's like, I don't know, there's some advantages in like

being public. There's advantages in being opaque. We kind of chose translucent basically.

And I think it was just, it was one of those things. I think it's a good one for the team. But also,

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