Winning ain’t nuthin but a G thang, baby

Last week, whilst I was gambling all my hard-earned money away in Vegas 💸

We shipped Filipa, Omar and Nicholas off to Copenhagen 🇩🇰

For TM Forum's Digital Transformation World 🎪

Not familiar? TMForum (www.tmforum.org) is the leading global industry association for service providers and the telecommunications industry with over 850 member companies, including all major Telcos ☎️

After a couple of virtual pitches I had previously done we were shortlisted in their Next20 - the top 20 startups inspiring the next wave of innovation and growth with a chance to present to 3,000+ global tech leaders at DTW 🤩

Fast forward to the show ⏩

Just when the Surfly gang were about to sit down for some smørrebrød...

El capitan, Nicholas, ran to the toilet, and started pacing nervously in front of the mirror desperately trying to remember his vision, and mission 🤔

The pressure was building 😫

He started contemplating running across Denmark, jumping in the Wadden Sea and swimming back home to Groningen 🏊🏻‍♂️

Lickety-split, before he knew it, there was a loud knocking on the door 🚪

Security rushed in and dragged the edgy Dutchie on stage in front of a raucous audience 🙈

...it was showtime 🎥

With his palms sweaty, knees weak and arms heavy 😅

Vomit on his sweater already, t'was mom's spaghetti 🍝

Nervous, but on the surface he looked calm and ready 🕺🏻

To drop bombs, but he kept on forgetting 🤯

What he wrote down, the whole crowd was so loud ✍🏼

He opened his mouth, but the words wouldn't come out 🗣

He was choking, how? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm joking now 🤣

Nicholas did remember his vision and mission, pitched our unique Interaction Middleware (Act II) gloriously and.... 🥁🥁

🎉🥳🏆 𝙒𝙀 𝙊𝙉𝙇𝙔 𝙒𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙒𝙊𝙉 🏆🥳🎉

In recognition of our ability to address the challenge of "seizing the enterprise opportunity and the future of connectivity" 🚀

A few months ago we won a massive project with a top 10 global Telco against 8 other vendors together with our awesome partner Accenture - we now have a foundation to catch our next wave and start building out another exciting vertical 🏄🏻‍♂️🌊

Very BIG thank you to Eminem, Snoop D-o-double-g BUUUT most importantly YOU - our dope fans, partners and customers 🙏🏼

We love you ❤️

Peace, out 🎤👋🏼