Inside Coinbase’s Mission-First, Distant-First Guess

BRIAN KENNY: Welcome to Chilly Name, the podcast the place we dive deep into the tales behind groundbreaking Harvard Enterprise College case research.

Right now’s case examines how one cryptocurrency change navigated two main resets in a single 12 months. The primary was shifting to a totally distant workforce, and the second was adopting a coverage that explicitly banned political and social activism at work, sparking an intense debate about management, tradition, and the boundaries of company engagement in social points.

Oh, and if that weren’t sufficient, these choices got here at a pivotal second simply as the corporate was making ready for its historic IPO. This case explores what it means to construct a mission-focused tradition in a hyper-growth, high-volatility trade. Right now on Chilly Name, I’m joined by Professor Charles Wang and visitor, LJ Brock, to debate the case, “Mission First at Coinbase.”

I’m your host, Brian Kenny, and also you’re listening to Chilly Name on the HBR podcast community.

Professor Charlie Wang’s analysis and instructing deal with company governance and valuation, he’s a repeat visitor on Chilly Name. Welcome again, Charlie.

CHARLES WANG: Thanks for having me. Nice to be again.

BRIAN KENNY: It’s been some time. I regarded again within the archives, it was 2022 the final time we had you on the present, so you bought to come back by extra typically.

CHARLES WANG: Thanks. Nice to be again.

BRIAN KENNY: LJ Brock is the Chief Folks Officer at Coinbase and a protagonist in at the moment’s case. Welcome, LJ.

LJ BROCK: Oh, nice to be right here. Thanks for having me.

BRIAN KENNY: We love having the protagonist within the room. You lived it so that you may give us an ideal perspective. I discovered this case actually fascinating. I admit I don’t know so much in regards to the cryptocurrency trade, so for me it was nice to take a deep dive on that, and I don’t assume we’ve achieved sufficient episodes on that specific trade because it’s so essential, however this was about way more than simply the trade itself. It was about some huge bulletins that you just made and choices that the corporate made. Why don’t we simply get began with you, Charlie. I’m going to ask you what impressed you to jot down the case and what questions had been you hoping college students would wrestle with once they had been learning about Coinbase’s mission-first transformation?

CHARLES WANG: In my function because the course head for FRC, our required MBA course on “Monetary Reporting and Management,” I used to be actually making an attempt to search for a brand new case that might study how corporations construct belief in capital markets, which is our bread-and-butter matter for us. Coinbase stood out to me as a result of its total technique centered round being the reliable participant in an trade that’s typically related to hacks, scandals, and simply basic volatility. And that stress between the attributes of the trade and what the corporate would wish to do to earn credibility with its stakeholders was fairly fascinating to me.

My preliminary curiosity, Brian, in tackling this case was round how Coinbase must handle this, let’s name it considerably difficult relationship with the SEC and the broader regulatory surroundings. However as soon as I interviewed LJ and Emilie Choi, the corporate COO, it turned clear to me that the true story right here wasn’t nearly compliance, it was about how the corporate curated its tradition, the way it designed its management methods to drive its differentiated technique, and the mission-first and remote-first reset stood out to me as a wealthy context to discover a few of these very basic administration management design questions whereas additionally referring to two of probably the most urgent challenges for modern-day corporations: political speech at work and distant work.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah. What’s your chilly name, to begin the dialogue?

CHARLES WANG: I ask college students, “Do you assume that the corporate’s management is sensible in making the decision in these two resets, or do you assume they’ve made catastrophic errors?”

BRIAN KENNY: Fascinating. LJ, you’re going to be in a category at the moment, proper?

LJ BROCK: I’m.

BRIAN KENNY: He’s going to ask that query, so that you’re going to seek out out in the event that they assume you’re sensible or not. That might be an fascinating second, I’m certain.

LJ BROCK: I believe that might be the primary group of folks that I might encounter that might recommend that I used to be sensible, in order that if I even get one in there, it’ll be nice.

BRIAN KENNY: That’s nice. Effectively, let me flip to you for a second right here. Should you look again at 2020, I teased within the intro that Coinbase had type of two seismic shifts happening. The primary was going mission-first and apolitical stance throughout the corporate, and that is 2020. That is when there have been a number of issues occurring the place leaders and organizations had been anticipated to take a place. In order that’s one challenge. After which the second having to do with simply going totally distant, even at a time when individuals had been returning to work and corporations had been making an attempt to encourage individuals to come back again into the workplace. So, two huge choices that you just made. The 2020 weblog put up by Brian Armstrong was thought-about extremely controversial on the time. I’m questioning when you can take us again to that and speak about how the adjustments felt internally and the way workers reacted in these early days after these bulletins had been made.

LJ BROCK: Yeah, completely satisfied to. And I believe you started by highlighting the context that’s essential to form this, which is that if you concentrate on what was occurring in 2020 on the earth, the nation was in type of throes of upheaval. There was all the things that had occurred round George Floyd, there was the sense of how was social justice going to play out within the office? And so, when Brian did the mission-first weblog, I believe the very first thing internally that folks actually struggled with was contextually explaining what it meant to them, as a result of it was so completely different from the sense of the second. We weren’t asking them, Brian wasn’t asking them to in any manner, not have pursuits, emotions, passions about what was occurring within the nation. We had been simply saying that inside the office, you might not anticipate the corporate as an entity to share your values and your beliefs. And we needed to discover a widespread sense of what all of us might be sure we shared. And so, the very first thing I believe, what had been the staff experiencing? It was just a little little bit of like, clarify this to me. It feels very completely different. It’s not the final ethos of the time. Take us by this. And so, we needed to spend a good period of time articulating to individuals, what did we imply by mission-first, what was it actually going to play out like? After which what did it not imply? I believe in taking individuals by that, definitely there was some angst, there was some confusion, there was some individuals very enthusiastic about it. We had all that broad set of spectrums, however we had a chance, I believe, to actually drive readability of objective as an organization going ahead and to be actually genuine about who we had been going to be. And I believe that’s a standard theme that we’ll in all probability speak about as we undergo this.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah. Charlie, I’m going to come back again to you as a result of from a instructing perspective, we’ve seen so much has modified. In reality, now this choice nearly appears prescient, when you fast-forward to the place we’re at the moment, however so much has modified. And I’m questioning, what this second in your thoughts reveals in regards to the tradeoffs that leaders face between focus and inclusion.

CHARLES WANG: Completely is. And I believe the very first thing that it reveals is simply how tough this tradeoff is for managers who’re within the place to make it. And there are numerous methods you’ll be able to conceptualize how one ought to go about making these very tough trade-offs. And in our course, one lens we’ll supply to college students is thru technique, how corporations compete of their trade context. Coinbase is working in a really younger, risky, and also you would possibly even say intensely aggressive surroundings with dozens of gamers. And its technique is to be the trusted user-friendly on-ramp to the world of crypto. Now, to earn that place, it needed to differentiate itself by being clear, by being compliant. It needs to be the reliable participant. However what which means is that there are going to be limits with respect to what Coinbase can or can’t do in competing on this surroundings. It means Coinbase can’t transfer as quick or supply the identical sorts of, let’s say, greater danger, greater leverage merchandise that its rivals primarily based on offshore jurisdictions would possibly be capable to supply to fulfill dealer demand, to draw quantity, which in fact is among the most important sources of crypto change income. So, a manner to consider that’s, it is a firm competing in a hyper dynamic market in some sense with one hand tied behind its again. And so, you’ll be able to see how underneath these sorts of circumstances, focus and flawless execution nearly turns into considerably existential. And so, that is a technique you’ll be able to take into consideration find out how to make that tradeoff. Now I believe it’s helpful to simply keep in mind that even when you assume technique may also help us conceptualize or rationalize that tradeoff, the act of implementing such a trade-off in actual life, particularly in that surroundings again in 2020, actually requires an unlimited quantity of conviction from the corporate’s management.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah. And we’ve talked about LJ, the way it’s taking part in out internally for you, however that is additionally spilling out externally, and doubtless by design to some extent. That is additionally at a time when the trade itself was, sure, I believe they had been underneath scrutiny, however a number of the massive gamers hadn’t had their second, proper?

CHARLES WANG: That’s proper.

BRIAN KENNY: So FTX hadn’t occurred but, a few of these issues hadn’t occurred. So right here you might be actually placing yourselves on the market and making an attempt to distinguish your self primarily based on being the trusted participant. And your workers could be saying issues on-line, on social media and different locations about how sad they’re in regards to the place you’ve taken. How did you cope with the criticism that you just had been listening to perhaps within the media and from another locations exterior the agency?

LJ BROCK: Effectively, look, I believe one of many huge classes to me on this, after which how we handled it was round authenticity of management. And what I believe occurred within the second when Brian did the mission-first weblog is that he had at all times believed in mission-first. I believe it was central to the way in which that he thought we’d run a profitable firm. After which at that second, I believe he discovered his voice and we actually hit this robust sense of authenticity. And so, if you’re being genuine to who you might be as an organization, coping with dissent or questions round it externally is, frankly, I don’t need to say straightforward. I imply it’s clearly a problem, however you might be being true to who you might be. You’re being clear about it, and it’s straightforward to articulate that to individuals in a manner that I believe at the very least they will perceive, they could not agree with, however they will perceive the rules behind your choice. And so, what I believe we discovered is that it was essential to drive that authenticity and understanding to all people within the firm in order that as we had been coping with exterior questions or candidate questions or worker questions, we had been all on the identical web page.

BRIAN KENNY: Charlie, I’m questioning how, when you have a look at it out of your perspective, how do you interpret that call within the context of organizational alignment, long-term efficiency and the technique of differentiation?

CHARLES WANG: I assume I view each the short-term and the long-term penalties of this. Within the short-term, this sort of a choice, anytime you will have 5% of your workers deciding to go away, you’re going to expertise some short-term pains. The actual query here’s what are you gaining in the long term? I see at the very least two objects. The primary is, this sort of a choice may also help to make clear what the corporate’s truly about, what its core beliefs are and what the boundaries are that outline acceptable conduct. I consider these because the yin and the yang of an organization’s soul. And after you have clarified what the corporate’s actually about, the truth that you will have 5% of workers go away is usually a profit to a company in the long term in that it will possibly sharpen worker choice, that means people who find themselves becoming a member of or staying at Coinbase after that second, presumably had been doing so with a a lot clearer concept about what this firm stands for and what its values are. And I imagine that that form of alignment could be extremely highly effective in the long term to assist strengthen cohesion to cut back inner friction over time. So, in that sense, this short-term ache can produce hopefully a extra resilient and self-reinforcing tradition that may assist drive long-term efficiency.

BRIAN KENNY: LJ, did it really feel that manner on the time I’m questioning? Or how did the individuals who stayed react, did they really feel like they had been a part of a stronger group or had been they nonetheless uncertain about what was going to occur?

LJ BROCK: I believe Charlie’s dialogue of short-term versus long-term is fascinating as a result of I believe the short-term was a lesson for me in change administration, and I believe it helped us in what you’re asking, which is, in giving individuals this feature, I believe we moved by the change curve way more shortly than in all probability I might’ve anticipated or I’d ever skilled beforehand in my profession, which is to say we type of had actually a, I don’t know, two-week interval the place we’re like, “That is who we’re going to be, listed here are the questions. Let’s speak about it as an organization, you determine what you need to do.” After which individuals made their selection in round, I don’t need to diminish that having individuals go away was each personally painful and difficult for the enterprise. However what I do assume it did is it allowed all people who stayed to maneuver to the opposite aspect in a short time and understand that we had been going to deal with what sure us collectively on our mission. And so, in some ways in which minimized the challenges within the sense that we didn’t linger in a interval of cloudiness or discomfort for an extended time frame. We moved to a interval of motion, which has at all times been what makes Coinbase nice. We execute properly. And so, we moved into environment friendly execution, which is considered one of our values, and we began executing on advancing the corporate’s supply on this world, our merchandise going to market, advancing our tradition, advancing our hiring. We simply acquired again to enterprise and thru the rhythm of enterprise, we discovered ourselves therapeutic.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah, and also you hear so typically about organizations that don’t take the form of step that you just did, providing individuals an exit ramp, and so they find yourself with this type of lingering discontent that may nearly be poisonous from inside. So, it sounds prefer it labored out properly on this case.

Charlie, I’ll come again to you for a second. We haven’t talked in any respect in regards to the second a part of the reset, which was the totally distant. And once more, we return to 2020, we’re popping out of COVID, persons are beginning to be adventuresome and return to the workplace. You’ve mentioned this with, specifically government contributors, and I’m questioning what their response is to that second a part of the shift?

CHARLES WANG: When college students assume by the trade and the aggressive context, they shortly grasp why execution excellence is so crucial to the success of Coinbase. However provided that, a lot of them are fairly stunned about why the corporate determined to stay remote-first even after COVID, as a result of to a lot of them, it feels considerably inconsistent with this concept that you just want a lot of focus and execution excellence. And I believe a lot of them are interested by their very own experiences working distant. And so they’ll say one thing like, “I do know I’m not totally centered once I’m at residence,” you’re surrounded by your comforts, many distractions—

BRIAN KENNY: Doing the laundry. I imply, come on, we’re all doing the laundry at residence.

CHARLES WANG: Doing laundry breaks. “Love is Blind” breaks. Some have children, roommates to distract them. And loads of leaders, like Jamie Dimon are deeply skeptical about whether or not or not, specifically full distant as a modality of labor, can actually work. So, they actually wrestle this query, how can an organization whose success depends upon having doers, builders executing with world-class self-discipline, how can an organization like this select a piece design that appears to ask all kinds of ethical hazard and disengagement? And that stress, I believe, drives a number of classroom debate.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah. Even with out the primary a part of the reset, the apolitical half, it’s arduous to go totally distant and preserve a tradition and really feel such as you’re constructing a tradition, however if you add the opposite piece onto it, you’re leaving a bunch of individuals in isolation the place they will assume no matter ideas they’ve, they don’t have the water cooler conversations. I’m questioning how that performed out for you and the way you had been capable of type of, because the chief individuals officer, your job is to maintain that tradition rising and coherent. How did that be just right for you?

LJ BROCK: Yeah, in all probability on a few dimensions. I believe one vector was, we’ve at all times been an organization that we discover objective in doing the work and getting it achieved and being very execution-oriented, as I discussed. So, we even went into being distant, our pure cadence of rhythm of our enterprise was each 90 days having an everyday checkpoint on our objectives, advancing these. We, as a matter of as a chief individuals officer, we rolled out 90-day efficiency checkpoints. So, we had been checking in very light-weight with each worker each 90 days on how they had been performing. We had been actually amping up the deal with execution in a manner that I believe being distant demanded at first of it. One factor was simply extra hyper-focus on execution. The opposite piece was, how will we nurture the tradition? Effectively, we had month-to-month city halls. We had Brian speaking about every of our tradition tenants each month, considered one of them. We’ve continued that now in apply and that carries on. So, we had been ensuring that at the same time as individuals had been distant, they had been nonetheless experiencing the CEO chatting with them on an everyday cadence about what’s the tradition and the way do they stay it? After which frankly, we’ve over a time frame continued to iterate on what does it imply to be remote-first. The excellence, I might name is remote-first isn’t remote-only. That’s what we at all times say at Coinbase. And so, we’ve had varied levels of the place we’ve introduced individuals collectively at completely different occasions or crew conferences or workout routines, both in what remained of our places of work on the time or in different websites, to ensure that we had been nurturing a few of our tradition within the second as properly, stay in individual.

BRIAN KENNY: And I figured, if the case mentions this, it in all probability does, has the corporate grown considerably since this timeframe? And in that case, have you ever discovered find out how to onboard new individuals in a manner that makes them really feel like they’re a part of the neighborhood with out truly being with their colleagues on a regular basis?

LJ BROCK: Yeah, so the fascinating dynamic of Coinbase is that distant propelled us, I believe by unbelievable individuals development. I joined the corporate in 2019, it was 700 individuals, at our peak we reached 7,000 individuals.

BRIAN KENNY: Oh, wow.

LJ BROCK: We’d not have achieved that in my estimation, with out being distant. We sadly went by a downturn and acquired again to about 3,500 individuals. Right now we’re nearer to five,000. So, we’re again right into a development mode. And yeah, I do assume that we have now a number of mechanisms for a way we onboard individuals. One factor that’s simply central to the way in which we function is we have now a written tradition. I say that I believe we made distant work. I don’t assume distant’s for everyone. We made distant work partly as a result of I believe Brian had tuned the corporate, in my estimation, it’s personally my view, of leveling the taking part in discipline for introverts. And that meant placing all the things down in a written format, and that meant onboarding remotely was so much simpler as a result of it’s not one thing off within the ethos. It’s not, “Oh, I’ve to be at a water cooler.” You possibly can examine it, you’ll be able to see the way it performs out within the work by our documentation. I believe that has helped us actually preserve our tradition as we’ve scaled.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah. Charlie, you’ve checked out a number of organizations in your analysis. I’m questioning what classes individuals can take away from with the ability to scale whereas nonetheless not at all times being collectively.

CHARLES WANG: There are a couple of classes I’ve been studying. I believe when individuals hardly ever meet in individual, there’s at the very least two issues that turn out to be way more essential. The primary is express codification that LJ referred to. After which the second to me is extra cautious choice of who works in your organization. In such a work, tradition can’t solely depend on osmosis anymore. So, we have now to jot down issues down, doc issues to make the tradition extra teachable. So, I believe Coinbase’s playbooks, the inner memos, the retros, all of them serve to make a few of these implicit norms of preparedness, execution excellence, fairly express. On the similar time, as a result of a number of the interactions between colleagues in remote-first world goes to be considerably asynchronous, it’s going to be arduous to reshape individuals’s behaviors by interacting with them stay. So, I believe choice turns into way more essential on this world than simply, say, pure socialization. It’s helpful to know that you just’re deciding on people who already suit your tradition, your values properly, and may thrive autonomously inside our group. A second lesson for me is about find out how to handle danger on this remote-first surroundings. When proximity is not a pal that can assist you implement accountability, so to talk, you must construct that form of administration self-discipline by considerate administration management, system design, metrics, dashboards, suggestions loops. I believe they turn out to be way more essential as a part of your accountability infrastructure. And put merely, say, in a remote-first world, you’ll be able to’t handle by strolling round. So, you want management methods that do this observational be just right for you. However on the similar time, you need to design these methods that can assist you amplify the upsides of being distant. If distant work helps you faucet into nice expertise from around the globe, to get these distinctive self-starters, builders, the doers, then your system, your incentive system specifically ought to actually reward these qualities which are obligatory for achievement.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah, I can completely see how remote-first could be engaging from a recruiting standpoint. Lots of people need the pliability. I’ve, my very own children work in jobs the place they will work wherever they need, it sounds superior. Sounds too good to be true, truly. However I additionally marvel if the apolitical stance has been a detractor in some methods, and I deliver that up within the context of the millennial era, we all know they need to be concerned with a company that stands for one thing, proper? They need to be a part of a motion. We all know that that pulls them, and that companies who’ve taken a robust stand on sure points is usually a draw. I’m questioning when you’ve seen any pushback with regard to that or if there are candidates who you want to get who you’ll be able to’t.

LJ BROCK: I don’t assume it’s been a detractor in any respect. In reality, I piggyback on what Charlie stated. I believe that the essence to me of what I’ve discovered in that is that it’s about ensuring that the model expertise matches the model promise from an employment perspective. What’s going to be anticipated of you, and doubtless the one biggest stat I take delight in is that after we do our annual engagement survey, someplace within the 90 to 95% of the individuals within the firm say, “What I believed I used to be stepping into is precisely what I acquired into coming to Coinbase.” And so why I say to you it’s not a detractor is it serves as a filter to deliver the people who find themselves going to be proper for us. And we’re okay with those who have a look at the filter and say, “That’s not proper for us.” And so, I believe it has helped us scale, and it’s helped us scale in a way the place we’re not simply including individuals to get bigger, we’re including individuals to execute as a result of they’ve chosen to come back to a spot the place they know what they’re stepping into and so they need to be part of it. And so I believe on the finish end result is definitely so much higher than it will be if we had been simply fearful about, oh, can we be all the things to everybody?

BRIAN KENNY: And there’s a mission focus on the agency too. We haven’t mentioned it explicitly, however a part of the unique imaginative and prescient was to make cryptocurrency, the financial system out there to all people wherever they’re, which is a fairly highly effective focus.

LJ BROCK: The people who find themselves, I believe, at their core, the happiest and probably the most engaged at Coinbase come for the mission of financial freedom and what we’re making an attempt to realize as an organization. Completely.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah. Superior. Charlie, again to you for a second. We’ve acquired time for only a couple extra questions. I’ve acquired two for you and one for LJ. I’ll provide the final phrase since you’re the college member, and that’s—

CHARLES WANG: I respect that.

BRIAN KENNY: That’s how we like to do this. However earlier than we get there, when our college write circumstances, they’re at all times making an attempt to extrapolate from this one instance, what are the bigger classes that may be discovered? And I’m questioning, as you wrote the Coinbase case, what had been the broader insights you had been hoping individuals would possibly take away from that?

CHARLES WANG: Yeah, I believe it’s that because the world turns into ever extra advanced, managers must make many of those tough selections about technique, about office insurance policies, about organizational design. One lesson I hope our readers, our college students will take away is that these selections needn’t be handled as separate choices. They’re a part of one single built-in exercise that’s, in Coinbase’s case, anchored within the firm’s mission that we simply talked about. This mission to create an open monetary system for the world by crypto, served because the North Star that formed all the things else how the corporate formed a technique to compete on belief, the tradition of transparency, preparedness, the design of management methods that can maintain that focus and excessive efficiency tradition in a remote-first world. And when achieved properly, these design selections can reinforce one another, shaping the way in which individuals work, how they’re measured, how they’re incentivized, how the group learns to all begin to pull in the identical route. And that alignment is finally what can permit an organization to show its mission into precise efficiency.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah. So LJ, I’ve acquired one closing query for you. Hindsight is 2020, properly, we have now the profit now of wanting again over the previous few years and seeing how issues unfolded. As you look again at it now, is there something you’d do otherwise in 2020 with these authentic bulletins and the way you communicated this, each internally and externally?

LJ BROCK: If I take that in just a little little bit of a unique route, the factor that I replicate on probably the most wanting again is much less about any particular factor we’d’ve achieved otherwise in that second. However to me, a part of what I learn on this case and what I take into consideration wanting again is the authenticity level I introduced up. So if there’s something, I believe the earlier you could be genuine about who you might be, the higher a frontrunner you’re going to be in your firm. And so if I may have achieved something in time, I in all probability would’ve backed up and achieved the mission-first transfer earlier. And so my lesson is you’ll be able to’t get to authenticity quickly sufficient.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah. That’s nice. That’s an ideal perception. Charlie, I’m going to provide the closing phrase on this. We at all times, I believe most of the companies that we work with and the listeners to our present are grappling with a few of these exact same questions that Coinbase has been coping with and type of taking part in out. I’m questioning what this case does by way of serving to leaders navigate the mission-driven organizations in polarizing instances, when you’ve got any insights as to how we would take into consideration that.

CHARLES WANG: I’m a company governance researcher, and there’s been this secular debate about stakeholder governance that I actually take away from the Coinbase examine. And I believe the case surfaces some very uncomfortable truths about what it means to handle stakeholders once they disagree. Within the secular company governance dialog over the past 10, 15 years, there’s this sentiment on the market, which I’m certain each of you might be properly conscious, that corporations needs to be managed to serve the curiosity of all stakeholders, workers, prospects, buyers, and the communities we function in. I believe that sounds nice. It’s a really seductive concept, however for my part, a horribly impractical one, as a result of frankly, stakeholders hardly ever have aligned incentives. Within the Coinbase case, even inside a single stakeholder group of workers, there could be deep disagreements about what the group ought to stand for and what choices it ought to make. And so the true management query turns into, how do you make trade-offs amongst stakeholders who’re essential to the enterprise, crucial to the enterprise, however they’re not aligned with one another? Coinbase, to me, gives at the very least one potential roadmap for different leaders on the market: let the mission and the technique be the information that can assist you make these arduous selections. To appreciate its mission, this firm needed to compete on belief and execution, not simply innovation. And so it meant that they needed to prioritize stakeholders that may assist the corporate construct quick, securely, and in compliance. In order that they wanted the doers, the builders, the executors who may flip that technique, that mission into actuality. And so in that sense, I believe the mission didn’t get rid of the trade-offs that exist. It simply clarified them.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah. And like several nice HBS case, there isn’t a one proper or mistaken reply.

BRIAN KENNY: LJ, Charlie, thanks for becoming a member of me.

LJ BROCK: Thanks very a lot for having me.

CHARLES WANG: Thanks for having us.

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