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00:00So they filed all the paperwork as well.
00:03And the organizers of that tech forum, they said,
00:05look, the president's going to come and speak.
00:08You guys can sit down.
00:09We're going to have a great conversation with him.
00:12I said, oh, this is going to be exciting.
00:14And it went from, hey, we're going to have a conversation to,
00:17well, it's going to be a roundtable of industry insiders
00:19like yourself with the president.
00:22And then when we showed up there and waited all day for it,
00:24it turned into, oh, well, actually,
00:27it's going to be a handshake and a photograph that people take.
00:32Okay.
00:33That's a little bit of a bait and switch.
00:35But we said, you know, we're talking to all of his other people.
00:38We talked to various ministers and these other people.
00:40And really, Federico Schwarzenegger was the real big guy that we wanted
00:44to talk to because he was the Ministry of Deregulation.
00:47And we wanted to understand what, if any,
00:49opportunity there was for public-private partnerships.
00:52Because I view Argentina as a labor market.
00:54We're building Lace Wallet down there.
00:56We're creating jobs.
00:57We signed an MOU with Globant.
00:59It's a 20,000 developer company.
01:01We don't actually need a single deal from the Argentine government.
01:04We were just curious what Malay wanted to do.
01:07So we had all these people that we'd encounter along the way,
01:09and they say, hey, you know, give us a little something, something.
01:14We can get you a meeting.
01:16And, oh, yeah, magical things can happen.
01:19I said, well, that would be a violation of the FCPA.
01:22We can't do that.
01:23And then suddenly they stopped talking to us.