Welcome to all. And thanks to David Gladstone for joining us today. Let's start with a few more words about your own career. American Capital Strategies is a specialty finance company that does mostly buyouts, not startups, but in your previous post as chief executive of Allied Capital, you also financed everything from startups to medium-sized mature companies. It is great fun.
Entrepreneurs are the greatest people to work with.
At Allied Capital I financed some start-up companies. But I retired from Allied and sold my stock. I am also working on a new fund. It is one of the most exciting periods of history for entrepreneurs and investors. The opportunities are so abundant and capital is available for good ideas.