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Thank you for this detailed review and feedback, and for your more than four years of service at Health Catalyst. I appreciate the positives that you shared around compensation, benefits, DE&I, and leadership communication. I also appreciate the constructive feedback you shared in some really important areas. Regarding burnout, we are hopeful to make meaningful progress and improvement here in 2022 as part of our operating plan, which includes much higher investment levels than in the prior two years which were negatively impacted by the pandemic. We've also appreciated your feedback and others' similar feedback about "flexible/unlimited PTO" which has sometimes translated into very little PTO, and in today's all-team-member meeting we'll be providing a new updated "time off" framework, which we'll emphasize with every people manager and repeat in future all team member meetings, incorporating the concept of a "minimum" time off of just over 5 1/2 weeks -- every company holiday plus minimum PTO, to add to 28 days or just over 5 1/2 weeks per year for every team member. We've also included meaningful other compensation elements in the 2022 operating plan, including base salary increases, a meaningful promotion allocation, increased 401(k) match to 4%, above-market annual equity grants, etc. I hope these items, together with a much larger incremental R&D investment in 2022, will bring more help and enable less burnout moving forward. Thank you also for your kind words directed towards me, personally. You're not getting rid of me any time soon, so I'm excited for us to be on this journey together for years to come! Best, Dan