Sometimes, if you have the right environment, a small (amount of money) can start something exciting. If you have the vision, you can go out and raise funds.

Things looked very uncertain for a couple of months. We all were shaken emotionally and economically. Purdue was starting a very aggressive plan at the time, and we were not sure we could raise the money.

If anything, our demand is going down, which is good in a tight supply environment.

It's definitely going to impact the environment economically. This is a serious undertaking.

We needed to bring suppliers into the Wal-Mart environment and let them tell us how to grow.

Silicon Valley certainly has a very cheap funding base that makes a lot more money in rising rate environment. Comerica is kind of pure play on commercial lending side.