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Thank you for this review and for the two years you spent at Health Catalyst! I hope you've found a career path and company that are working well for you. I appreciate you sharing the positives you experienced while you were at HCAT, including the connection to the mission, our aspirations, remote flexibility, and thank you for your kind words directed towards me. I also appreciate your feedback on areas for improvement. As new team members join the company, including new leaders, there is a balance between enabling these teammates embrace and adopt the operating principles, the cultural attributes, and mission-orientation of the company, and for the company to be open to new ideas and ways of doing things brought by those new teammates. This is tricky, and sometimes comes with some bumps in the road along the way, to be sure. We're working on the compensation element, diligently, and I'm excited about all the elements that are favorable to team members that are included in our 2022 operating plan. We'll keep working to provide competitive, above-market compensation every year moving forward, just as we have every year since our founding. The past couple of years have certainly presented unique challenges in that regard, and we haven't been perfect in our response to those challenges, by any means. But our intent has always been to do as much as we can, as soon as we can, to share the success we have with every team member at Health Catalyst.
I also acknowledge the challenge any organization, including Health Catalyst, faces as we scale. Scaling from 5 team members to 50 was challenging. Then we faced different challenges scaling from 50 to 500. Now we're at 1,500 team members and contractors, and this kind of scale presents additional, and in some ways, more complex, challenges. This also includes learning how to effectively and seamlessly integrate teammates and technologies that come to us through acquisition. Also not an easy task. But we're studying these processes, seeking for continuous improvement, and are motivated by our mission to strive for excellence in order to keep moving forward to 5,000 team members and then 15,000 and then 50,000 and beyond. If we are to accomplish our mission we will need to be 100X to 1,000X our current size, so we will continue to carefully study how we can become better and better at scale. Thank you again for the two years you spent at Health Catalyst, and I wish you success in your current and future endeavors. Best, Dan