My original plan was to get it public in about four years, which was aggressive, and it ended up being six years.
Still kind of aggressive, well done!
Still kind of aggressive. But I'm super happy with it. It was very well received. It did really well. It's traded reasonably well since then. So I think what I really wanted to do, we were getting a lot of pressure, well, consider a SPAC and all these things. And I told my team at the time, I said, look, getting public, in some respects, is the easy part. Hard part is being a high-quality public company. And I want to provide leadership to the industry. I want to show a proper S1 IPO process and provide some leadership.
Go down the fairway. Do it well.
Do it well and do it professional. Do it with a great banking team, with proper analyst coverage, institutional investors, and all that. So I'm very proud of what we have done. And I think, to your point, a lot of space companies are now in vogue. We've got the SpaceX IPO coming up. And I anticipate several companies getting public this year.
Yeah, they'll probably follow the pull of that offering.
That's right.
And what was it…part of what we're trying to do within the Unreasonable Fellowship is bridge these unlikely relationships between very disruptive, fast-growing, science-based, technology-based solutions that can pull a brighter future into the present and the world's largest institutions, in this case, Barclays, over 330-year-old financial institution. What was it like to be working with their banking team with such an edge case technology?
Yeah, they were fantastic. Rob Brass was our banker there. And Rob is fantastic. And Rob, I have to credit Rob because I think he helped us shape our narrative in a way that we hadn't totally seen from the outside or from the inside. So, he was super instrumental in helping us craft, I would say, our go-to-street messaging. So Rob's been great. Barclays has been great. We had other banks on the deal, of course. But yeah, no, they've been great partners. And we worked with Barclays also on a follow-on offering. We did a convertible offering. They were on that deal as well. And they're part of our banking syndicate for our credit facility. So they're great partners.
Yeah, so you guys are cooking together.
We are. Yeah, yeah. And I saw Rob. We were in Miami at a conference not too long ago. And he had me on stage. So yeah, he's a great guy. Yeah, yeah, love it. So you.
