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I think over the next 20 minutes I'm going to talk about, you know, what are the

drivers for this acquisition to happen?

How did it come through?

What went well?

What did not go well?

What mattered to the team, both

in terms of emotions, egos. Now you have founders on one side, you have the investors on the

other side, and then you have operators like me on the other side, right? So, obviously,

it's a very interesting dynamic that has happened over the last few months.

Quickly a quick background about me.

So I've been in SaaS for maybe 15, 20 years, mostly as an operator, self-financing

and selling for companies.

So I started off as an executive at a growth equity fund called Camber Partners.

You might have seen some of those teammates like Justin or Will around.

So we had a thesis and we started to look out for a bunch of companies.

I think personally I looked at 150 companies over the last six months.

And I think Beamer was a company that kind of really stood out in its own definitions.

One, it was led by two founders, it was bootstrapped, it has grown itself to being a few

million dollars of revenue without any external financing, led by a very international team between Spain and states,

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