Hello, my friends, and welcome to another exciting episode of Negotiate Anything.

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Vicki, thanks for joining us today.

Thank you, Kwame.

I've been looking forward to this for some time.

Same, same.

It's nice to meet you.

Likewise, I have heard great things.

We have a lot of mutual friends, and we have a mutual mentee, Minson.

I'm sure he'll come up at some point during this interview, so shout out to Minson here. So how would you get it started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Okay. I'm trying to make it short. So I spent 25 years as a lawyer litigating complex commercial cases.

Some of them involved products.

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