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Question: Kasthuri Gopalan Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: Kash Rangan of Goldman Sachs. Thanks for hosting us this amazing conference. So Gina, you did your best to drop that rocket by about $1 billion
in revenue or -- Bill had $20 billion plus. My understanding is that as rockets move up, they grow, they actually accelerate, right? So what is the --
what is the time line to get to $20 billion plus, Bill? Is it -- are we looking at acceleration beyond the $15 billion plus?
Question: Kasthuri Gopalan Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: You dropped it by $1 billion. So I want to hear that and then the $20-plus billion I want to hear that as well. The other question, more serious
question is -- the P X Q that you talked about, I think the worry that I don't share this, but a lot of our clients have that the Q is going to go down
more than the P is going to go up because you just saw these demos, which were breathtakingly impressive, great work here, right? So what is --
if this is what you can accomplish in such a short span of time? A year from now, we're going to look at -- are we going to be looking at even more
automation and this -- you don't even need a human to do all this stuff.
So help us understand or give us comfort that the Q is not going to go down a lot more. Maybe it's not down 50%, 60%, maybe down 5% or 10%,
the P is going to be up 20%, 30%. So that's a concern that some of our clients have, which may be unfounded, but I want to get your views on that?
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