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I'm excited about the greater Houston ecosystem because we have some brilliant minds that are innovators that are doing things that are not only just changing this city, this region, but they are changing the world. It is exciting to see more founders, more innovation, and more creativity every single day and every single year. Houston is a city that has been innovative throughout history and in the stands on the cusp of a huge innovation explosion. We're happy to be a part of that. I remember taking the meaning where I learned that Houston. Was ranked #42 in venture capital investment, and I said surely we can do better than that. I'm very thrilled to have been on the ground floor with this work, and I can't wait to see our innovation economy continue to flourish. Houston has all of these things in one city because of the diversity of Houstons different communities and neighborhoods that we could be a leader for the entire planet. Innovation is thriving here in Houston. Our greater Houston tech ecosystem is here to really showcase to the world, what does it really mean to be in Houston? What does it mean to be a startup? An entrepreneur, I love to talk about driving magnitude level change. Houston's got so much of that here. Like let's just be authentically Houston rather than looking outside. I'm super excited with where Houston is, but I'm even more excited with where Houston is going. So I can imagine in five years when we're looking at this and thinking about this, I hope that we're talking about the progress that we've made on AI, the progress we've made on investing, getting more collisions and density of startups in Houston. He's come a long way in not only innovating within its core industries, but also having like some emerging success stories. In markets outside of those industries, I think over the next couple of years, we're to see these companies exit and they will produce dozens and dozens of millionaires who will go out and they'll fund the next wave of innovation. We are a city of collaborators. We've got funders, we've got fuelers, we've got founders that are incredible. We have the foundation set to create the ecosystem throughout our greater Houston region and make us stronger. I'm so grateful that HX is continuing this tradition, our fifth year of a whole celebration of innovation in Houston. Great week and great work by HX. This event has been really exciting to just reinforce how we really start to create together. And so much of that happens through a spark. And I'm just so grateful that we are able to experience this here at HR. Show up at these events where all the innovation and startups are meeting so that you can also be part of it and you can participate or create your your next new innovation. This is where problems get solved and this is where we build the future Better Together. Please join us for all the. Events that we have coming up this week. It's been a great time out here and we hope that you'll join us.