our work during that time was for pharmaceutical companies and for developing applications for the military, but that model is going to evolve now because we are at another inflexion point at our life cycle. are you thinking an ipo? we really think there s volume in being a private company. it has allowed us to not have to talk about, you know, what we are doing until it s done and introduce, you know, incredible innovation without using just her story as the blueprint for success, holmes would convince private investors to put up hundreds of millions of dollars without ever looking at audited financial statements. we would like to think that investing is a rational equation, a careful balance sheet of risk and reward, but, in fact, investors, particularly those that come in early on often guided by their gut.
we can name the years of all the losses. that will be an inflexion point as we head into 2024, will they maintain the focus of the cultural issues that pertain to the small electorate. the democrats are pointing to the elections as proof they know what they want. the mission is to go after the bidens. it s understandable. they are not interested in governing or in issues that affect you or american families, social security, school lunch programs, they are not
are you doing anything, or what are you doing to make it so they don t have to? yeah, i think you hit the nail on the head with that last part. i wouldn t presume to tell them what they can or can t do. they have their own agency to make those decisions themselves. our responsibility is to help give them as much information as possible to make decisions on where they re going and when. but, to your latter point, our goal overall is that no athletes should have to go do that. and to do that we need to grow our league. it is at a tremendous inflexion point right now. the business has never been better than it is currently. and the momentum that you ve seen has been really incredible through a lot of metrics, but including tv viewership and things like that. the goal is for no players to have to go overseas. but in the interim, certainly i wouldn t presume to tell them whether or not they should. it s good to have you on speaking on all of these issues, vince, thanks for coming in.
his country. we have reporters tonight in ukraine and russia. fred pleitgen is in moscow. but let s start with alex marquardt in kyiv. alex, what is the latest there on the ground where you are? reporter: well, pamela, president biden is now back across the border. he is in warsaw tonight. he was here in kyiv not just at a symbolic moment, because we are marking the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine later this week, but at a strategic moment as well. this is a real inflexion point in this conflict. ukraine is expected in the coming weeks to mount a new counteroffensive, to try to take back territory. likely in the southern part of the country. that is what at least some of the $500 million military aid package was going to be aimed at that was announced today at near-term offensive objectives. at the same time, pamela, we are starting to see the early stages of a new russian offensive on at least four different axes in the eastern part of the country. it is not going
they must be opposed. autocrats only understand one word no. no. no. no, you will not take my country. no, you will not take my freedom. no, you will not take my future. and ukraine, ukraine will never be a victim for russia. never. reporter: it was interesting the president really framing the decisions that will be made by world leaders, particularly those among western democracies, over the course of coming months will echo far beyond just the year ahead in the fight that s going on in ukraine, and continues to this day, will echo for decades to come. and that s the frame when you talk to the president s advisers going into this day, going into this speech, they really wanted to highlight that the president really wanted to make clear just the scale of the struggle that the president framed at only inflexion point at this moment, making it very clear much more