Lux has been around for almost like 20 years I've only been there for like seven and a half so I mean I've been there for a while but yeah it's there was still a long history before me. What are the sort of technology categories that have either underperformed or overperformed from the sort of priors? That's a really good question. Clean tech is like real right like all the renewables like cost curves keep coming down it's just hasn't had the returns that venture capital wanted when they invested in it. A lot of these things kind of kind of come in waves. It's one of those kind of spaces where people have been like oh this thing has
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