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Swiss-Based Board Owl Matches Companies and Board Members — Founder Interview

This blog post first appeared first on old medium publication (https://medium.com/startuprad-io), and was moved to this blog with the relaunch of our website in summer 2024.

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In this episode of Startuprad.io, host Jörn "Joe" Menninger sits down with the founder of Swiss to explore how this DACH-based startup is tackling real market challenges. From early-stage hustle to scaling strategy, this founder interview dives deep into what it takes to build a startup in the German-speaking ecosystem.

This blog post first appeared first on old medium publication (https://medium.com/startuprad-io), and was moved to this blog with the relaunch of our website in summer 2024.

Executive Summary

Daniel has a vast experience as a banker with UBS, and Goldman Sachs, as well as a headhunter. His headhunting experience leads him to semi-automate the matching of startups and potential (advisory) board members at Board Owl. The startup is based in Zürich, Switzerland. The potential members are from Germany, Switzerland, the US, and the UK, as well as the Middle East and Africa, where there is no limitation of sector or seniority. The knowledge of potential members is also a very diverse background with a strong emphasis on tech. Their know-how ranges from fundraising, to team set-up, to former CTOs, former fashion industry executives, as well as former healthcare executives.

Investors will be very happy to see a high caliber of experienced people on your advisory board.Daniel Aghdami, Co-Founder and CEO — Board Owl

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Consultants will get in and out fast. Where an advisory board stays with you for a longer period of time.Daniel Aghdami, Co-Founder and CEO — Board Owl


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The Founder

Daniel Aghdami (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-aghdami-a715b2/) is the CEO and co-founder of Zürich, Switzerland-based HR tech startup Board Owl (https://boardowl.com/). The startup helps other startups and companies to find suitable members for supervisory boards or advisory boards.

Daniel has past experience as an analyst with UBS, a technology analyst at Goldman Sacha, and several positions as a headhunter, including in Dubai. He also had a brief stint in structure products as well.

In 2010 he co-founded executive search company DART (https://dartexec.com/), where he realized that finding board members could be much less labor intensive and therefore cheaper for younger and smaller companies. This was the birth of Board Owl.


The Startup

Board Owl (https://boardowl.com/) is a spin-off of Daniel’s executive search company. It enables matching companies looking for board members with potential board members.

The people available on the platform are from very diverse backgrounds, work experience, and very diverse geographies. Half of the potential board members are from either Germany or Switzerland. The rest is equally spread across the UK, the US, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as Africa. The platform works for all sectors.

Supervisory boards in Germany and Switzerland are required by law (given a certain size of a company and legal form). Companies from other countries are looking to fill positions on advisory boards e.g. for their network, know-how, or geographical knowledge.


Venture Capital Funding

Board Owl is currently raising a seed round. A Berlin-based VC fund will join this round. You can reach out to Daniel directly about the fundraising on LinkedIn or talk to us.

Consultants will get in and after the project is done get out. An advisory board stays with you for a longer period of time. Daniel Aghdami, Co-Founder and CEO — Board Owl

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[0:19] Hello and welcome everybody this is Joe from startuprad.io and today I do have a start up here from lovely Switzerland gritty Daniel how you doing.


[0:30] Guilty Joe it’s great to be here on the podcast with you and I’m doing very well thank you.Lima pleasure you are the CEO and co-founder of board owl, meaning like the night bird I’ll based insert Switzerland and you one of three co-founders as always we’ve first go a little bit through your CB before we talk about the real startup I have seen you tended University of Greenwich Greenwich in London and the open University how was it to go to university in London I seem a little bit expensive actually back then and I’m showing my age a little bit it was not so expensive back then because it was still very much paid for by the state and so as you might hear from my accent I am originally from the UK.Mongrel or hybrids depending on which way you see it so mix of Persian British and Swedish jeans.


[1:33] And so studying in London was was obvious for me we’d spend some time in Switzerland before that of the family had returned back to the UK and, University.Yeah it was a bit of a mixed bag for me so in short I’ve done a fair bit of it but I never concluded it I started to the year I managed to get a job in technology which meant to become a summer job and they convinced me to stay on paid me a lot of money because there were many tech people around them especially once you could speak German and they convinced me to stay on, I tried to go back to University but it just didn’t Business Park had beaten me so so I cut it off, I see I see and interesting thing is about a Persian Heritage you can celebrate New Year twice a year right.


[2:26] That’s right with no rules don’t ask me exactly what it is it’s coming up soon but I always know because I receive a whole flurry of messages from my distant relatives.


[2:37] The interesting thing is first there’s the official New Year like January 1st then there’s Chinese New Year and sometime after that there’s the Persian New Year, I have spent New Year in China but I have totally no clue how the Persian new year celebrated maybe we get into that after the podcast recording.Talking about the jobs there I’ve seen you’ve been a.Analyst in banking with a UBS typical Swiss bank where have you been and what you’ve been doing there.Sure so the my career started in technology really which was a bit of a legacy thing my father was an engineer first in the automotive industry and in transitioned into technology he was working for UPS he was always a big believer in not giving, me things per se or money but helping me with opportunities so I spent three Summers when I was a, late teenager when all my friends were at the beach or in the swimming pool I was at UPS working over the summers in technology and that was my first job there as well it was as an external I was a journalist very dry Tech role but it was a good foundations of what was to come later on got me the transition into the banking world.


[3:59] In from there somehow you moved on to Goldman Sachs and working in information technology also an analyst I do assume what did he do and where I seem London actually that was mainly based in Zurich I traveled a fair bit so was spent a lot of time in London and in Geneva it started out as a pure technology rollo’s doing supporters rolling out new software and things like that then transition into more of a market data rolls having to Bloomberg Reuters those kind of things to kind of feed all of the trading systems.Having finally before I left a transition into business analysis and project management.


[4:45] The interesting thing is from there somehow you turned a Headhunter how on Earth did that happen from analyst in the banking in Zurich to, technology analyst and then a Headhunter so so it’s the next step for me would be logically either to go into VC or be in the tech entrepreneur yourself but how did he become a headhunter that’s a very good question and.


[5:13] Back then I loved technology but I was not.


[5:20] That excited about how everything is bolted together so I love the using it I loved what technology can facilitate.But I didn’t necessarily want to be in the trenches of Technology anymore I wanted to be to be using it was important to me to be on the front of a business I knew I love dealing with people I was very interested in people.And yeah kind of like I said want to be the front office you know building driving things forward and being responsible for pnl and it was just really through chance so the company that it’s hired me into Goldman into that Tech role.I was at the time a very specialized technology recruiter they’d heard that I had left Goldman and I decided to do that and also to seek a different path to going to want to go into a smaller company and do something completely different and they approached me with the proposition that I build up there Financial recruitment and executive search business which initially laughed off and then realized that actually it sticked pretty much all of the books is I’d say that even though I hadn’t thought of that as a career path, repeat what I learned about you so far is.People yay technology Nate Going Mobile technology can do but but I don’t need to be building myself.


[6:44] I see and then somehow you went back into banking.As instructed product and then you went back to a headhunting how did this happen um so what happened was I had obviously I mean head hunting is all about Network and staying in touch being proactive and so it stayed in touch with many of my my ex Goldman colleagues and happen to be.Contacting one of them at the right time when they were about to build a new new investment back so one that was actually.One of the earliest fintech side I know so it was really about building a.Technology platform to give clients the ability to self price structure products with these with derivatives and everything and my first interaction with them was really too as a Headhunter bring them in a number of people.


[7:36] And at some point the CEO back then said look you’ve clearly been salesperson because you’ve managed to convince number of people to leave their blue-chip firms and to join our little startup why don’t you join us as well and helps build a company and cell structure products and for me it was always a bit of an unchecked.Marcus slip through the net into Goldman somehow without my computer University.But it was that was a barrier to be getting into those kind of derivatives sales or trading Jabs, and so when that opportunity came knocking I thought I’d give it a go you’ll see from my profile that I was there for a limited amount of time about nine months, and the reason for that was because.


[8:20] Turned out to be not quite as fulfilling as I as I thought I realized that as he said earlier people yay I really I really do you know I’m so interesting people, I love the fact that when you’re working with the right companies.Who really value people as their number one differentiator then you can have a real difference on those businesses and you can have a real difference on the lives of the people that you hire into those companies.


[8:49] So that’s why I moved back and as you’ll see I buy at that point moved over to Dubai to set up the the Middle East practice from my old employer.


[9:01] And I assumed it was a little bit too hot for you because then you came back and co-founded the executive Search company that actually you are still a part of where the startup bartol is a spin-off before we get into that you also co-founded a school in Basel how did this happen.So actually has with bourdelle and we’ll get to that in a moment I think you know many people start businesses.Through scratching their own H and it was really that case with us as well so my daughter’s play school was bought up by a larger I believe private Equity backed group it was previously a fantastic Place organic food and you know wooden toys and a lot of connection with nature and things like that and it it turned into a awful place so half the staff fired and everything and, long story short we decided that the time was just right to set up our own play school.


[10:13] Pretty much for our daughter and to build a business out of it so we were fortunate that a couple of the very good carers from the old place call.Joined us there as we didn’t have the know-how and of course a number of the parents of the other children from the same place then also followed and became our first clients we were really able to build a wonderful place with very strong values connected to Nature.And yeah really it’s interesting actually looking at it that way because I realized that you know with my career of headhunting, and focusing on people’s path through their latest stages in life the addition of a nursery and daycare was actually.Not too dissimilar but looking at a slightly different stage of life as well so helping young children in their first steps of development earlier.


[11:10] Effort people also aligning.Working with top management working with a group of kindergarteners but that’s completely different topic and and then he came back to Switzerland to co-found Dart Dex Active search you’re still part of and when I look into the background of your video there is a snowboard so I assume you move back to Switzerland for the very simple reason that he got tired of waterskiing and want to do some more real skiing little disclaimer here I once tried in Texas and the water skiing and I was only diving actually I did love the kite surfing and and wakeboarding and everything else that you buy had to offer but for me for personal reasons because the.Right time to relocate to Europe I was too in flowing really between between London and Switzerland But ultimately yes the mountains one so you see my brand new snowboard the latest one to my quiver waiting Lefferts first right right now I love everything to do with boarding whether it’s snowboarding or other types as well as paragliding.Spending time with with my kids and and both dogs.


[12:34] Mmm and we’ll get into Dart after a very short break.


[12:46] And we are back so 13 years ago you came back to Switzerland and co-founded and executive Search company called Dart.And can you talk about tiny bit about what you’re doing in Dart and how this sparked the idea of the barred owl.Yeah with pleasure so we are a boutique firm but the hot so we have our headquarters in Zurich we have a we have a additional team member in Barcelona hoping to add one or two there as well and dart itself is a highly specialized search firm so we cover Financial Services only and within that even more specialized to recover.How did we get to board our again it was it was scratching an itch so about.Seven or eight years ago so about five years into my journey with with dart and this point at least to me it still felt startups were not so cool not regarded to be cool and rather regards to be pretty high risk I was reaching a point where I felt I wasn’t getting the company as far as I would like to get it and I was missing.It’s a really high-quality senior people.


[14:15] My big issue what was that most of them were just too expensive and they saw joining a small small firm.As just to high risk and I wasn’t going to pay them their banking salaries so.This solution for me at the time was to put together either a corporate board or an Advisory Board because I realized that actually if I’m organized and prepared then I would be getting most of what I was seeking from such a senior experienced person.From just a few meetings per year I just wanted to tap into their wisdom into their expertise into that.Life experience and into their networks and I didn’t need to bring somebody into the company.Full-time analysis we so so we built a an Advisory Board back then because as a small growing company is a little bit daunting to have the idea of you know perhaps reporting formally into a into a corporate board who.Might even potentially fire he became an advisor board in the first step and I mean short experience was fantastic so in good times and bad they proved to be excellent sparring partners.


[15:29] Challenge me on various parts of the business they brought a expertise where I didn’t have so much I mean I’m not an accountant or anything like that so whilst I knew how to build up a business and how to generate revenues, various parts of that whole chain you know billing and.Basically just just improving the health of the business I managed to get all of those insights from a very well put together diverse Board of people and then the realization came right this I was not the only one who had kind of overlooked that previously that there was this opportunity to really add.Lots of wisdom and experience expertise perhaps even from other sectors as I do as well.


[16:16] Into your business in a very cost-effective way you don’t need to employ lots of people you can actually get a lot of that advice in house in this kind of construct over an Advisory Board, poor corporate boards and then through our exposure to a lot of.Maybe senior Executives through through dance day-to-day business and countless questions whether we cover board mandates or not which we T is just to a very small amount of volume.Um we just realized that there was a there was a gap in the market there was far too little.Transparency around boards most boards were really very one-dimensional and seemed to be more of a box checking exercise.


[17:04] Rather than you know leveraging them and using them for what they could be used and there was just no no flow no transparency in the market because most of these board positions were just going to family and friends of the company owners or founders.So the companies were missing out on a big opportunity and many of these people who are willing to be part of, doing something disruptive or something exciting which is not getting access to these opportunities because there was no where to find them so that’s really where the idea of ball L was born we realized we needed to change something, on the traditional executive Search model because of course traditional executive Search is a very white gloves approach its low volume its high touch and so it’s expensive because it needs a lot of resources, and we felt that on a board level given certain.


[17:58] Aspects to that differentiators to executive Search.That with the use of Technology we would be able to drastically reduce the price of that process and the involvement of human interaction to make it much more efficient and much more accessible and have a bigger impact to many more startups.So basically your we’re trying to do is a semi automated platform where.Startups.Can find the talent for supervisory board or an Advisory Board and on the other hand people with the right Talent with the right skills can be found by those companies or the other way around.


[18:43] That’s right exactly so first and foremost we enable matching between those two sides.Then we educate both sides because Founders and Company owners need to.Realize they took me to learn not only about you know the.Impact of the well-put-together board can have and what does a well-put-together board look like but also many people who are looking to embark on their board careers whether it’s alongside their executive career typically in an Advisory Board function or whether they’re in a second stage after their executive career, looking to build a portfolio of corporate board mandates, many people love the idea of being on a boat but they don’t actually know what it means to be on a board and so we help them learn about that we run a number of workshops also peer-to-peer networking sessions and I.Leach into a third element of what we do which is which is community building so helping people to learn and grow together.


[19:46] As I said so as supervisory function because we have to tell the people so 80%.Right now listen to us or outside of Germany and if they’re inside of Germany they may not necessarily have an idea of what the supervisory board is but those members.Of the port maybe gmbh Naji or something else they’re only there really to supervise on behalf either of the owners of the company meaning if you have enough shares you can put somebody on the board there but.Also if you’re big enough at least in Germany they have been they will be more and more people from The Works Council brought in.And actually at the end there will be an equal representation between the people work for the company and the people who own the company.So as we said it’s a complete supervisory functions they’re all non-executives they have the job to really.


[20:50] Look what the executives are doing on behalf of other stakeholders that that is the difference compared to the u.s. right.That’s correct yes so I think you bring up a very important Point boards.


[21:08] Can be can be very very different tribes, you bring up Germany Germany is probably one of the most complex countries when it comes to boards and there are lots of different types of boards you’ve got the supervisory boards who got the power of the workers Council and their representation on the on the supervisory board what we are not doing Suddenly at this stage is the executive board so it really is all non-executives the executive board.Typically it’s composed of operational people in the company and that’s what we’re not doing we are focusing on all of those around so.The big difference between the supervisory board and The Advisory Board is that the supervisory board.Really carries the responsibility and the liability for the company as a whole.


[22:00] Um and so it’s a very formal set up countries vary massively in terms of you know what what the rules or what the responsibilities and the liabilities are of supervisory board members.But in most countries it really is the case that they carry the responsibility so they’ve really have to it’s a governance function right that overseeing the CEO and CEOs executive team and making sure they’re not doing anything.


[22:30] Bad anything illegal but also looking to steer them in the right direction and The Advisory Board.Is much more of as the name says.A sparring unit so I would say the corporate board typically is more constant for a longer period of time The Advisory boards so if I see board members do not carry any liability or responsibility they are there to help.The founder team of the owner of the CEO to innovate to break into new markets to improve processes but really as in a capacity as advisor and actually just on that note I think many people don’t don’t know this but if you look at.It’s a constant think of a single unicorn worldwide.


[23:27] Which does not have some form of Advisory Board who in Alpha has one meta has won at least one.That even big Health Tech firms as well like mode admin stuff they all have some form of Advisory board or multiple Advisory Board sometimes they’re called scientific Advisory Board sometimes their regulatory advisory boards, but many companies have them they’re just not always that prevalent.With startups they’re very favorable sometimes even preferable to supervisory boards because with an Advisory Board you can actually make yourself.Look more investable to investors because you can show the caliber of the people you’ve got on board with you who believe in your products and are helping you build it, so investors will be very happy to see some High Caliber or highly qualified advices on your Advisory board and the other benefit is.


[24:27] Whilst it should be a formal Arrangement formal agreement and we always Advocate that they should be paid in some form and there are multiple ways I like could be done early stage don’t have much cash so you can play with some Equity or similar instruments there is no there is no as we mentioned earlier so no liability and so that’s.


24:50] Reassuring for somebody getting involved with such an early stage startup but it’s also a little bit more relaxed for the founding team who don’t need to be you know feel as though their reporting to somebody they are rather.Counting on The Advisory Board to help.


[25:08] I would actually think of an Advisory Board as getting a lot of very senior consultants for very cheap price.


[25:16] Um not necessarily that I have been consultants in the past but they do have three certain know-how with which they can help you as a founder, there is there is some truth to help yeah I buy I don’t like to use the word cheap because and actually in some cases you’ll see that especially where Equity is involved.


[25:39] Advisory board or Advisory board members can do very well after their contribution to to start up.And what’s interesting is that you know normally as the blink is being created compensation is high up there on the agenda and you know it should be people should be fairly rewarded for their for their added value and input.But it’s so interesting to see that already quite soon after their involvement or joining an Advisory Board.The feedback we get to about what they get out of it themselves I mean they feel don’t just feel they learn so much from the other advices on the board from the founders themselves what it means you know the trials and tribulations of startups and everything that.At some point everybody’s in it because they’re just, loving being part of it and really you know gets also could put in Blood Sweat and Tears I think you know I mentioned earlier it’s a little bit more tactical as bit more short-term you can.Change your Advisory Board as the company develops and you should because it’s a very early stage you’ll need different skills and input then you will at a later stage.Um but I was differentiated very much from the Consultants that you mentioned because Consultants come into a job and get out and they don’t see things through whereas your Advisory Board will be with you for some time and share that responsibility for things working.


[27:02] Mmm I would be interested we’ve now talked to such a lot about.But use of boards for potential startups and companies how does it actually look for the people, I would like to go there basically my understanding is right now you find bottle some way for me it took a little trip to Barcelona at you startup Summit last year spring to actually find you guys and.Then.


[27:32] Um you have to register you are my understanding is you are required to take some classes to take, to become a board member and then at one point you as a person will be matched with a start-up is that about it Dad about the process you’re working with right now, kind of yet so at the moment we do not require you to take any of our courses because some some people who join the platform are already highly experienced board members we do encourage it for those people who have not yet set on board so either advisory boards or corporate boards and we also work with some educational Partners so well known Business Schools to whom we get with which we had access to the more heavy-duty board modules as well but basically the process is the following so you find us you start the signup process as part of that and this is where the technology becomes in so it’s algorithm works.You build your profile it’s self assessment at the moment this is going to be changing quite soon as we changing the model to be predominantly by invite so members inviting other members and vouching for them right now you can still get onto the platform if you don’t know another member.


[28:53] We will keep that door open but it will be a slightly higher hurdle going forward as we are we’re growing quite quickly, and you feeling up you basically do a self-assessment so you have a limited number of points you can allocate yourself in three key areas three key categories one is your sector and functional expertise.The other one is your geographical expertise and finally um but an element we find very very important also your personal traits and values so we think that those are equally important to making sure that you get the right fit between a board member and a company owner or the other Port moments there’s a few of the things that you can select so you can basically narrow down what what.


[29:38] Opportunities will come your way so you can see how many days you are available per year with you’re interested in what type of startups or firms that you would be interested in being on a board of compensation preferences and things like that and then and then yeah following a short call with one of our founding team just to kind of verify everything and give you some.Tips on how to hone your profile further your then live on bordelles platform and part of its community and have access to all of our document Library guides on compensation things like that and access to all of the peer-to-peer networking sessions in Personnel Moline and ultimately matchable so as opportunities come up and.Hedwig our our Wise Owl matches you with opportunities you will be you will be notified.


[30:42] Entrepreneurs out there right now listening can you give us a tiny bit of an overview what kind of people are right now registered as potential supervisory Advisory board members here on board out in Switzerland is it mostly focused to your visit mostly focused da orgies a region or do you get people from all over the world here.


[31:07] We actually have people from all over which initially wasn’t well it’s always been the plan but it wasn’t our our it wasn’t basically happened a lot sooner than we expect so that’s happened partially through some very strong collaborations with some startup incubators and accelerators the likes of F10 seed stars and which we were we were educating, startup Founders on boards and how to put them together and then many of them got on the platform and thought it was a good idea and sought their Advisory board members and corporate board members one thing led to another and today we have members on our platform.From we are still very very active very focused on pretty.Nearly half of our platform is based in over Switzerland or Germany and the rest.Equally spread across UK US Asia and certain cases Middle East and Africa as well.


[32:16] You asked about the types of people as well so I need if you got that so with board owl we have decided that.Given the fact that you can learn so much from different sectors it was by design that we decided to go.Completely you know all sector and we have members on our platform representing pretty much any sexy you can you can imagine.We have people who have been in Consulting up to a very senior level and of advice CEOs of large companies on key strategic topics we’ve got people who have.What took you know some of the largest blue chips and develop strategy for them and CEO roles here fo see 00, we have people from venture capital and private Equity who have invested in companies and help them scale and can advise Founders on how best to fundraise or how best to build their teams as they grow we’ve got people from technology XE Toews, or current software developers who can also provide input from that side we have people from the fashion industry of work for the likes of.Gucci and Prada we have people from Healthcare Global head of.


[33:42] Risk ethics and compliance for one of the largest pharmaceutical firms I mean it’s really that that Broad and diverse strong emphasis on Tech as many companies look for, Tech nowadays there’s usually some kind of tech element to most startups but generally really cross it.


[34:06] I see everybody who like to learn more they can go down here in the show notes they will of course have your LinkedIn profile as well as the website of board out and to close up this interview we have our two usual questions of course first are you open to talk to external investors.


[34:26] We are and timing of our call is excellent people might be listening to this.Even in the future so always open to talk and right now especially as we’re just in the process of closing our seed round we have a.Actually berlin-based Venture Capital fund who has joined joined the route which is great.And the number of other sort of smart money investors from the HR HR Tech space.So yes always open to talk to people who would like to be part of our journey and help us have a strong impact on the success of startups globally.Hmm and are you guys currently hiring we are and here as well.We are always open to Great talents whether it’s in Zurich where the headquarters is in Barcelona or anywhere in the world actually is we all Embrace this a tougher flexible working set up.I see three core Barcelona snowboarding all water skiing right it seems Ruby.Daniel thank you very much it was a pleasure talking to you all the best and let us know when you see ground is closed and of course we will have eight in our startup news.


[35:47] Thank you Jose great Pleasant pleasure he was a great pleasure to talk to you today and look forward to speaking again before too long.Pleasure was all mine have a great day bye bye.


[36:02] Music.

Key Takeaways

  • Swiss is part of the growing DACH startup ecosystem, addressing market needs with innovative solutions.

  • Board Owl is currently raising a seed round.

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What does Swiss do?

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How is Swiss funded?

Board Owl is currently raising a seed round. A Berlin-based VC fund will join this round. You can reach out to Daniel directly about the fundraising on LinkedIn or talk to us.

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Joern "Joe" Menninger is the host of the Startuprad.io podcast and covers founders, investors, and policy developments across the DACH startup ecosystem. Through more than 1,300 interviews and nearly a decade of reporting, he documents the evolution of the European startup landscape. Follow Joern on LinkedIn.

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