Alex, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Turner. It's great to be here.

Yeah, I'm excited. I talked to a bunch of people before doing this. I know you told me to talk to Jamie at Ring.

I talked to Adam Bain and then the guys at Slow, Will and then Yanni. So I got a bunch of different perspectives on.

And then I think you gave me some ideas too. So I think we have a pretty fun conversation coming up. I'm looking forward to it. I'm, now you have to be nervous or intrigued as to what they said. I mean, honestly, it was better than I would have came up with by myself. Like, there's just, there's a lot of like interesting, interesting like, almost like perspectives and narratives and stuff to hit on.

I think probably one of the big ones is you're kind of the first or maybe the most prominent at scale to pull off this kind of venture growth, buyout, AI roll up strategy that I maybe we'll talk about in a couple minutes.

But I'm, I feel like that's probably what I'm most interested in just like hearing how it's all, how the sauce is made. I was wondering if they took credit for it. Oh, they did. Yeah. They're like, you know, make sure we get, we get, we're in, we're in the lead position for how much work we did here. But I think probably the most interesting thing is we were talking

about, you think that something like 50 million Americans have in some way interacted with or

used the Metropolis product at some point, which is kind of massive. Like that's insanely large.

And I feel like a lot of people have never even heard of a company before. So what is Metropolis? Yeah, I think you're right. A lot of people haven't heard of the company.

And to your comment, at this point, over 24 million Americans have signed up with the platform.

And probably at this point, north of 50 million people have actually used our product or our services.

And I think that goes to the fact of, you know, how do you think about how do you actually describe Metropolis?

And there are two really fundamental ways to think about the company.

On one side, this idea of an applied AI company.

You know, we talk about ourselves as artificial intelligence for the real world.

But really, how do you take these services and these products that we're so used to in the palm of our hand?

And how do you extend them into the real world? So what we've done is we've leveraged computer vision and artificial intelligence to create seamless experiences everywhere around you.

And we started with parking.

This idea that you could just drive into any metropolis-enabled facility anywhere in the United States,

get a text message when you arrive, and seamlessly charged when you leave.

That's one side of our business.

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