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There be few things which you would have wounded up right. At snowflake. So would you want to kind of share any three incidents for that matter where you wounded up and you know, that kind of reflected in the stupid, just growth at snowflake? Yeah. We look, you know, we're amping up, you know, all day in the, in the smallest ways you can possibly imagine, but also in very, very big sweeping ways as well. You know, let me give you the small way of example. You know, I remember when we had our seven year anniversary, a 10 year anniversary coming up now, you know, and, and, and so many HR, one show me a t-shirt design that they'd done for the event. I don't know why that wanted show up to me because probably wish the New York time and mine, but, but they showed it to me. And I, you know, I, I wasn't inspired, you know, and I didn't really say anything. And I said, what do you think she kinda only took me like, Ooh, my line. I'm like, do you like it? She's like, no, it's okay. You know, I'm like, okay, is, is not what we're here for. Okay. Either you're, you're incredibly excited about this, you know, or, or don't show up, right. This is not about checking your box, getting it off your desk. It's a stupid t-shirt. But, but if we're gonna do it, let's just, let's just be like, wow. Right. Because we, we, we didn't sort of set the bar high enough for ourself. Okay. I know it's just a t-shirt, but it doesn't mean that you're gonna do a mediocre crappy job that nobody likes. Right. So in other, this is sort of, sort of channeling the, the Steve Jobs, he wasn't, you know, unfortunately old enough to have known him at the time. He was incredibly intolerant of anything that didn't where he didn't think it was great, you know, he was immediately done with it and with the person, you know, I'm not that aggressive, you know, in that way, I'm, I'm a little bit nicer, you know, about it, but I still, you know, I don't want to give into expediency and, and mediocrity, I just, don't, I'm just gonna fight it, you know, every, every step of the way. And it's just good advice generally, but, you know, in terms of much bigger things, I said this on the main states yesterday, I mean, we completely changed our organization from a geographical backbone to an industry, you know, vertical focus that is incredibly hard to do for, for, for a software company. Cause they overall, you know, in, in that mode and everybody you hire understands that mode and has lived that mode, your whole careers there about that, all original, this original, that, and all of a sudden it's like whereby industry and consulting companies, they are, you know, organized by industry. Often sales organizations are not, but you know, we set off on that journey and we just, you know, we learn, you know, in, in real time to become that way. And we're still doing that day to day. I mean, I joined the board of, you know, Vista card, you know, not because I needed another board seat, but because wanted to expose myself to other industries, you know, and learn about other industries. I mean, I'm more fellow with hospital executives. I don't know nothing about hospitals. I have to learn all these things. So we force ourselves onto these modes, you know, to change ourselves. Right. So those are really drastic, you know, radical transformations. We just bite it off and, you know, sometimes we bite off more and we can chew, but it doesn't matter. You know, we, we, we, we embark on the journey and we just won't stop until we're world class, you know, and we don't know what world class is. Hopefully we'll recognize it when we get there. You know? So just a few minutes left. Hi Frank. I see it. Yeah. So thank you very much for this discussion. Been of probably one of the older users of snowflake. I've seen it grow, been using it since 2016. Wow. And so I've seen it grow from what the product initial was. And the initial days we actually worked closely product management. It was music to my years yesterday. One of the features that we've been clamming for is finally there, which is materialized tables and materialized views. I think first would be a small critique if that, with respect to summit next year, as soon as we heard about it, I all my team. And because it just said that this is gonna be public preview, right. It still wasn't. And the, my knowledge, it still isn't. So if we could have clear dates on any new product that our app, because we really, the, I will, some of these things we've been asking for forever. And so That I'm gonna follow up on this right after this meeting. Okay. This stuff bugs been hell outta me. So thank you. So that that's one thing, I mean, second ask was with respect to strategy. Another thing that really was music, my peers was we support for Apache iceberg. So would there be similar such features because one of the things that we're facing is across different enterprise. So would there be similar, external kind features available for the competition? For example, we have some data lying around in Redshift, some data lying around in matter if we have externals can snowflake the enterprise data. Yeah. You're, you're exactly right. Which is why, you know, iceberg was you such a compelling, you know, strategy for us because we really was funny. We had a financial analyst day yesterday, you know, Christian talked about iceberg and he did a show who here knows about ice. Iceberg is three people of like honor it, you know, I never heard of iceberg. So, so it, it's still something that's, you know, a little bit, you know, ahead of the curve. But the whole idea is that, you know, it becomes more of a data lake because you know, multiple tools can operate under the same file right now, the snowflake data it's only snowflake can operate. Right. And that's also how we, how we maintain the integrity and the functionality of the object. Whereas we open it up to other products, you know, there, there, there are now compromises, for example, you know, the encryption and all these things, you know, we won't be there, but you know, we are bringing a ton of function, you know, to iceberg that iceberg does not help off of itself. Right. And you know, we both have people say, well, I really want to use snowflake with the ice table format because they bring so much incremental, you know, value, you know, to that file format that set. And this is what I'm gonna be super interested in. You know, you have to make a determination. In some point, I'm gonna go with the snowflake file format. I'm gonna go with iceberg. You need to have your reasons for it because you're going give up stuff. Okay. And in other words, it's becoming a trade off. What I don't know. And I, I keep asking the question that's unknowable at this point is how are the people make these, these, these choices? Are you just gonna say, oh, we're gonna go with iceberg live that way we have optionality. And we're gonna always change our mind later on, which is for a lot of people, you know, tools come and go, and the thought formats is open and I can sort of adopt tools, you know, as I, as I see fit and not locked in and all those kinds of words, but you know, it may well be that triage for now. You know, most people here in snowflake are still using snowflake tables because they're much more functional than iceberg possible. So it becomes a bit of a, you know, a red herring at that point. I just don't know. I'm not trying to tell you which way's gonna get thing that I dunno, you snowflake, you know, snowflake is a little bit like apple in the sense that, you know, architecture is, you know, the functionality is very, very rich because we control it. Right? And you give up things, you know, when, when you go to open, open format. So, but I love the fact you've been with us for 2016. That's you should write a book. So Frank we're outta time. Just how you guys say, you gotta read this, book it up leading for hyper growth by raising expectations, increasing urgency and elevating intensity. I'll give you the bumper sticker, raise your standards, align your people, sharpen your focus, pick up the pace, and then transform your strategy by looking out and sharpening your peripheral vision and looking at adjacencies to really grow your business, frankly, you know, you, you become a business hero to a lot of us. You know, people like Scott looks Neely, Jay Reed, LA a great leader. And so thank you, JRE is on board By the way. Yeah. She's amazing for her background. If you don't know it, she in MOSCON, she was underneath the ground doing an electrical engineering stuff. Incredible woman. Thank you for writing the book. I really appreciate it. Thank you for your time today. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you.