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Most of the time when people come to me and they want to ask how to get buy-in, they've got a date in mind, they've got a particular meeting, and they have this idea where they're going to craft this perfect proposal, they're going to present it, everyone's going to give them the thumbs up, and they win. And that's the wrong attitude, I think, even to start with, to getting buy-in. It's more of a journey. I'll give you an example where I was looking at how do people get started in Jira. You want to go and change something like that, you're actually changing it for all of these different products. It's not just the one. So every product that this could potentially negatively or positively impact, we went to very early with the idea and the proposal, and we got their feedback. It's good to set that meeting up early, you know, when you've got some clarity, but it's not fully fleshed out. And so that you can fold in some of their concerns, because they'll have this much broader view. And that also creates people who will be an advocate for you once you get into that room, that final meeting.