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00:25 This is episode 430. And so we got a new blog post that I helped write. It's prevent prototype delays, your essential PCBA preorder checklist. And this is just a list. I I would assume most of the engineers that are listening to our podcast know a lot of these tips and tricks, but this is for, like, new people to the industry and new people to PCBA design.
45:18 So you pay x dollars a month, and then you get all the updates and the new stuff. Right? Whereas the traditional model was you pay $60 and you did a video game. Right?
43:54 What what the subscription service really does is it it flattens out their their prediction of money, basically, their income. Whereas, you know, if if you're selling to say Eagle and you're selling the new version, you have these big spikes when you have a new version come out, and then it just trails off. Right? So it's very hard to gauge your runway of a company when that's your model. Whereas subscription service, you can be like, okay.