 Hey, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for joining us here today. For this wonderful occasion, we're glad to celebrate one of our local entrepreneurs, Mr. Corey Jackson Quirks. And his company's name is Quirks and the launch of his new talent product that he's unveiling today. So with that, it's my pleasure to turn the microphone over to Mayor Daniel Rickman for the city of Columbia. Mayor Rickman. Well, it's another great day in Columbia. Here we are opening another business. What have we been talking about? Open in Columbia, open for business, open for collaboration, open for investments. And we got Corey here, who's getting ready to launch, talk about helping small businesses. He's developed technology to help small businesses retain talent. Isn't that amazing? Here, right in our hometown, right here, and he's going to grow and continue to keep moving. And we're so excited to have Corey here. I'm going to let him tell you all about his business because it is his business. But I do want to say this is so exciting for us again. Once again, I think this is probably the seventh kind of opening launch that we've had in the last couple of weeks here in Columbia. So we're moving forward. And remember, Columbia is open. Definitely want to thank Mayor Rickman for coming out and showing support. We met a few weeks back, and I was telling him a little bit about what we were doing. And he said he wanted to support. And he showed up. So we definitely appreciate that. Just really quick about what we're doing and what we're looking to accomplish. Our web application is about helping small businesses find local talent. All you guys probably know that how people are acquiring talent now is different. And then also how people want to work now is changing. Some people want to have a break in the middle of the day and go do Pilates with their friends and then pop back into work. And so what we wanted to do was give people multiple options of how to work, whether that's full-time work, whether that's on-demand work, whether that's contract work. But we wanted to leverage technology to be able to do so, to help these companies find talent that suits them, that serves them, and then also allow small businesses to be able to compete for talent. We all hear about the talent gap and all of these open positions and how hard it is to fill these positions. But we wanted to do some about it. And it really kind of started with our own company. We started off as a service company. We were doing more talent acquisition, more hand-to-hand type work. And we saw a huge need for how we were hiring. And so we wanted to produce some technology that could help other small businesses as well, be able to hire not only just talent, but elite talent here locally. And so one of the things that I like to do is support as many entrepreneurs here in the city as possible. We have genius-level talent here, right? And we have to make sure that we're cultivating that talent. We have to make sure that we're supporting that talent. And we got to make sure as entrepreneurs that we continue to be bold, audacious, and that we're bringing our missions and visions to life, right? So I do want to thank a few people. I want to thank my whole entire team. I want to thank Stacey Joseph. She's not here. She was a little under the weather, but she's our project manager, lead developer. I want to thank Eric as well. But I definitely want to thank my beautiful wife, Ashley, over here. So Ashley's an attorney, and she runs her own law firm. So we're both entrepreneurs. But the kicker is we have four kids, right? And so it's very difficult, if you can imagine, to have two entrepreneurs in the house and you have four kids, right? And so there's a lot of give and take. There's a lot of times that I'm working up early in the morning, three in the morning, telling them about my ideas. And I don't really always get a lot of feedback. And I realize she probably went back to sleep. But she definitely supports me a lot. And I certainly appreciate that support. I want to thank, once again, the mayor. Like I said, what he's doing here in the city is awesome, how he's supporting entrepreneurs, how he's supporting small businesses. It's just a beautiful thing to see. And then also my guy Ryan right here, Department of Economic Development, him and, where's Sergio? Sergio, these guys right here are amazing. I'm gonna tell you right now, if you have a business, these guys have their finger on the post and the whole ecosystem of the city. These guys are boots on the ground. When I met these guys, they made relationships, connections, resources. I mean, they just kind of just rolled out the carpet and asked me what did I need, what I was trying to accomplish. And they just went for it. And so if you guys don't know them, you definitely should know them because they're doing a great job. Like I said, they have their thumb on the post of the whole ecosystem here on the ground and they understand what's going on with what we need as entrepreneurs and small businesses as well. Other than that, I want you guys to help me launch this thing, right? And so what I wanna do is, I'm gonna count down from three, right? And then we're gonna all celebrate together. We're gonna applaud and we're gonna be officially launched, right? You guys ready? Three, two, one. Yeah, sir. Thank you guys so much. And so what I wanna do, we have food, we have drinks. We have some wonderful business owners here. I wanna kind of shout out right quick. We have Miss Tasha Hall. Her company is Frozen Grapes. You guys, if you've been to any of the UFC, I mean USC football games or basketball games or any events around the state for that matter, you've probably seen her and you've probably seen her products as well. So follow her on social media at Frozen Grapes. She's on Instagram and she's on Facebook. I want to shout out Miss Deidre of Deidre's Kitchen. Phenomenal, Phenomenal Cater. She showed up for us today and we certainly appreciate her. Definitely follow her on, I think she's on Facebook as Deidre's Kitchen. And then I have a really special guy, man. This guy is a hardworking guy. He's open in a new business. His name is LaCoura and he's the owner of Brick House, Gourmet Coffee and Tea. These guys are literally a couple of days away from their soft launch for their first brick and mortar location. So let's give them some love on that. So definitely pop over and support if you're a coffee or tea person. I promise you, you won't be disappointed. And so definitely check that out. But once again, thank you guys for showing up. Let's socialize a little bit and meet somebody. Maybe you haven't met before, don't know. If you guys haven't talked to me, let's pop in and have a couple of conversations. Yeah, don't give me a microphone. That's my deal. I promise you don't give me a microphone. But yeah, let's connect. Let's have a good time. Grab some great food, grab some drinks and let's enjoy each other. Thank you guys. Yes, so really simple, quarksjobs.com, right? And so the logo is right there. That's how you spell it because most people are like, how do you spell that? And so it's Q-W-E-R-K-Z quarksjobs.com. You can go on, sign up. If you're a job seeker, you can sign up and fill out your profile and let companies know how you wanna work and how you wanna connect. And if you're a business that's looking to hire, you can post right away. The platform is entirely free right now. So we haven't added any paid products or features to the platform. Everything is totally free. Everybody can get on, explore. The big thing I would like for you guys is just feedback, right? The more feedback we can get, the better. And the goal for us is to make a product that's gonna serve the community. And so we wanna make it better. And just to give you guys a scope of like how big this is, what we're doing. If you think about it, there are thousands of communities around the world like ours, right? And there are tens and thousands of small businesses that are looking for talent. And there's millions and millions of people that want to be in control of how they work and they want to be able to have the lifestyle that they want. One thing that I learned through COVID-19 is people really want to embrace being free and having flexibility. And this is something that we wanna bring to the average person, which in return helps these small businesses find more and more talent. So definitely check us out quirksjobs.com. Just give us all the feedback you can. I don't care if it's good, I don't care if it's bad. The key is for us to get it and then we're gonna do something with it. We're gonna make it better. So we appreciate you guys. Let's grab some food and some drinks, guys.