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Oscar, thanks for joining us.

Kwame, thanks. I'm really looking forward to listening to your questions today.

And, you know, before we even get into this, this, it's really funny the way that you said that,

because most people say, I'm looking forward to the conversation, but again, just true to form,

I'm looking forward to listening to your questions. Listeners, I just wanted to like point that out

for you because that's just a taste of what we're going to get from Oscar today. This is great.

So Oscar, how about you tell us a bit about yourself on what you do?

I think to understand me, you have to zoom into a boardroom in April 2008. I'm on a video

conference between Sydney, Seattle and Singapore, and we're doing the annual budget process.

It's a very famous process because the meeting's always run over. This is scheduled to be a 90-minute

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