Are Mark and Ben Trending Away From Crypto?

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I want, I care about making this movement successful, and being involved with great people. The whole ethos of the firm was let's do more than just give capital, let's go and do all these other things. So for example, we have 80 people on our crypto team, and of that, I think something like 65, or on our operating team to support our companies. It seems like kind of broadly Mark and Ben are trending away from doing the day to day stuff. Yeah, this is like a meme in the media, it's not at all true, those guys not not true. We're constantly like both building, and that's, and they're very, very active

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