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There's a lot of conversations about tariffs and about trade deficits, but very little about regulatory par. And I
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think that this is really critical for these trade negotiations to actually resolve to a positive outcome for
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American businesses and American enterprises because there is not parity in how American businesses can do their
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work overseas relative to how foreign companies can do work in the US. So if you're a Indian company and you want to
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sell something in the US, you set up an LLC, you set up a bank account, you set up a store, you take a lease, and you
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sell your product. There is not a lot of hoops and challenges to that business operating in the United States. The
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stories around the world start to paint a picture of why American businesses find it so hard to develop international
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markets and sell into those countries when in the US, we make it so easy for companies based in foreign countries to
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come and sell in America. And that's a big part of where the trade imbalances arise from. It's not just because
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Vietnamese people can't afford expensive American goods. It's because it's so much more regulatory difficult to do
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work in these countries. They can come in and take your IP. And so I think that this is like a really important part of
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the trade discussions and negotiations that a lot of people miss that American businesses will see massive revenue
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growth and massive market adoption if we can get regulatory parody in some of these key trade deals that are being
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negotiated.