So, in a way, the different structure is that we're partners, it's a partnership.

One way we say that is shared economics.

16.Partnerships and collaborations

What are you going to do, and what are they going to do?

Alvin, our software engineer and co founder, has built these tools.

It's all about you and me.

Let me start with the large company partnership risks.

So this sounds great. Partner sound wonderful but what could go wrong with this?

And all the books and literature that talks about partnerships very rarely addresses startup to large company partnerships.

Some of you are familiar with this.

And our partners are Zuma Canyon Orchids of Malibu, California, who are Hispanic.

As I said earlier, one of the biggest mistakes startup make is confusing strategic alliances and joint partnerships for what you need on day 1.

And when this thing started going on, we started becoming one community, renewing our connection to nature.

When do I need joint partnerships and when will I be hitting mainstream customers because remember most these partnerships tend to fail.

There has been a lot of competition in the past, and we need to develop a new model of partnership, truly collaborative, where we are looking for complementing, not substituting.

The Community Energy Partnership Program (CEPP) offers a 90 grant on eligible activities that have the technical, financial and governing feasability of a community project.

So, I just used this as an example not to bash Boeing, but to understand that even the smartest companies sometimes made partnership decisions that look good on a spreadsheet, but at the end of the day, partnerships are not driven by spreadsheets.

Stubborn.

Acumen came in with the patient capital, and we also helped to identify the entrepreneur that we would all partner with here in Africa, and Exxon provided the initial resin.

Again these are further out hypotheses but we're thinking about customer royalty programs, seniority credits, partnership rewards, free jersey giveaways.

We've also made partnerships with artists, with people who understand and can communicate the aesthetic beauty of trees and forest canopies.

He was a tough man.

Studying all night, sir Studying?

He's been arrested for mugging'.

Nine lives I have. But I'll tell you what else I have.

I started my career with trying to understand the mysteries of forests with the tools of science.

I'm right, huh?

It's waterproof.

Good. We have a burglar here.

Check's in the mail.

It's a very intense pure and deep taste.

Full course load. Studying.

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep, the most important parts of our self.

Ah, really.

Harder. Harder.

Harder.

Hard

This is pretty amazing.

I'd like to study in Paris.

It's a windy day.

She is obstinate.

She's stubborn.

She is stubborn.

He is doing his work.

He's now studying.