Houston Golden

BAMF.com

Surprisingly effective growth marketing for badass business owners.
10X your brand with the world’s finest LinkedIn influencer marketing services.

A few of the companies we've helped...

Pioneer, Compass, NERD, Mindvalley, Tenzo Tea, Loft, O-Live & Co, Unicorn Snot, FCTRY, Deputy, Wine Access, BEAR Powerfoods, Newchip, Pininfarina, Foursixty, KlientBoost, Data Science Dream Job, and many many more... 

We’ve driven pretty badass results
Our clients have amassed over 350 million organic views to date, and have generated over tens of millions in new revenue with our help.

Because, really… helping business owners is what I’m all about.

I started BAMF to help others achieve the same results I enjoyed from my own personal LinkedIn efforts.

In fact, I was so successful at generating organic interest on LinkedIn that I’ve been profiled in publications such as Forbes, BuzzFeed, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, and more.

Our innovative approach to LinkedIn content creation has been so effective, it’s practically put our lead generation on autopilot.

BAMF grew into a multi-million dollar agency in a matter of months, using little more than the same LinkedIn growth hacks you can learn for free in my LinkedIn Bible guide.

Whether it’s done-for-you or do-it-yourself...

The BAMF system executes proven LinkedIn growth processes, transforming our clients into influencers and their businesses into growth engines.

I’ve used it myself. I’ve used it to help hundreds of other entrepreneurs. 

Now I’d like to help you, too.

Just reach out to me and we can get started.

Drop me a note 👉 houston@bamf.com

Founder & CEO

Our Ultimate Written LinkedIn Training System. 📖 
Looking to grow your business on LinkedIn? Start here. The LinkedIn Bible has everything you need to start mastering your influence on LinkedIn.

Attention B2B Business Owners...
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To Get Sh*t Tons of Leads, Millions of Views & Booked Sales Appointments For *Any* B2B Business..."

Book Author

BAMF Academy

The LinkedIn Influencer Academy by Houston Golden 👋 
Master the Lucrative Art of LinkedIn Lead Generation & Thought Leadership 🚀 

BAMF Academy is the most comprehensive LinkedIn lead generation training on the planet — get armed with battle-tested tools to get qualified ready-to-close leads on autopilot.

If you’re looking to leverage the power of LinkedIn to bring you more business, you’ve come to the right place.

Inside the Academy, you’ll learn.. 
✅ How to consistently grow your lead pipeline on LinkedIn
✅ How to create an irresistible LinkedIn profile to attract buyers
✅ ​How to effortlessly turn dozens of prospects into closed deals
​✅ And so much more!

Lead Instructor

Join The Community of Badass Marketers & Founders (BAMF)

Excited to see you inside! 👇 👇 👇 👇 
Hey BAMFs! Houston, founder of BAMF here and I want to personally welcome you to our awesome BAMF community. Our group is one of the largest communities online of business owners who are killing it on LinkedIn. Meet new friends, learn from legends in the industry, and become a BAMF when you join our Facebook community clicking here!

Community Builder

BEAR BRANDS, LLC

Makers of BEAR POWERFOODS BEAR 🐻 BEAR is an award-winning meal shake. It has more nutrient variety than a kale salad, more protein than 3 eggs, and more probiotics than 4 kombuchas with only 5 net carbs. Recent winner of BevNet's New Beverage Showdown. 🏆

Advisor

Crowdist

Founder, CEO, Chief Growth Hacker

Hawke Media

Director of Growth Strategy

StartEngine

Preeminent startup accelerator in Los Angeles and an industry leading equity crowdfunding platform operating under the new JOBS Act regulations. 

Responsible for managing lead generation strategy and implementation. Managing the sales pipeline and completing testing of all lead sources to produce weekly and monthly reports showing optimization. Accountable for securing new lead sources and executing a comprehensive strategy to create a successful sales pipeline for the entire sales team. 

Design, launch, and manage marketing campaigns:
- Facebook Ads (design ads, create custom audiences, A/B test, optimize ROI)
- Email Newsletter for Investors and Founders 
- Outbound email campaigns for lead generation
- Create custom landing pages for lead generation/marketing
- Manage content marketing calendar and blog updates

Director of Lead Generation and Marketing

Hubify

Developed a social marketplace software for communities to create "Hubs" to list Goods, Services, Jobs, and Rentals.

Social commerce just got easier. Selling your handmade creations, renting your bike to a traveler, or offering your professional jobs and services, Hubify helps you get deals done with elegant technology. Connect with customers like never before and get paid securely with the tap of a finger.

www.hubify.com

Founder / Developer

CloudMedia

CloudMedia (www.cloud-media.com) is a creative digital agency that focuses on modern web development, media publishing, and designing online brands.

Web Developer, Designer, Digital Marketer

I’LL MAKE YOU A LINKEDIN INFLUENCER. 🔥 𝗕𝗔𝗠𝗙.𝗰𝗼𝗺 🔥 LinkedIn’s Golden Child. Half billion views. Forbes Top 12 Innovators. Author of The LinkedIn Bible. My kids say I’m hilarious.

🔥 Do YOU want to become a LinkedIn Influencer with an engaged audience of ideal prospects ready to work with you? (𝑦𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜)

🛑 Get in touch 👉 b͟a͟m͟f͟.͟c͟o͟m 

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Houston Golden is the founder and CEO of BAMF.com — a growth marketing agency based in Venice Beach, CA.

BAMF is known as the world's leading LinkedIn marketing agency for a reason— they get results. 

With over half a billion organic LinkedIn views, our clients are the most viewed people on LinkedIn. If you’ve spent any time at all on LinkedIn, you’ve seen their posts.

They are the masterminds behind some of LinkedIn’s top influencers and entrepreneurs, including Russell Brunson, Rob Dyrdek, Prince Ea, Mark Manson, Jay Shetty, and dozens more.

But, beyond that, Houston is most passionate about helping smaller entrepreneurs make it big, whether it’s by turning them into industry influencers and lead generation machines, or putting them in a position to hit massive growth.

Houston has authored 5 books on the subject of LinkedIn, known as The LinkedIn Bible Collection, been featured in countless high-profile publications, consulted for Fortune 500 companies, and still remains to be an avid surfer and all-around family man. 

He does all of this because he, too, started out as a struggling entrepreneur before turning $0 in seed capital into a business that’s worth millions of dollars.

From bootstrapping to being recognized as one of Forbes’ Top 12 Innovative Founders. It’s been a wild journey for him.


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The best people I’ve worked with don’t need to be managed.

They manage themselves.

They don’t wait for permission, they take responsibility.

They don’t need constant direction, they seek clarity and move.

They don’t clock in for approval.

They show up for impact.

Self-management isn’t about ego.

It’s about ownership.

When people care about the outcome as much as the leader does,

That’s when a company stops running on control.

And starts running on trust.

I used to think discipline was about saying yes to everything that could help me win.
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Now I realize it’s about saying no to everything that doesn’t align.
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When your priorities are clear, decisions become simple.
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You stop wasting energy on what doesn’t matter.
You stop chasing every new idea or opportunity.
You start moving with purpose, not pressure.
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This build momentum quietly.
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And the goals you once struggled to reach…
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Start to feel inevitable.

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I’ve learned that “never give up” isn’t about forcing yourself to power through everything.

For me, it’s been about staying committed even when the path keeps changing.

Some seasons look like progress.

Some look like starting over.

Both are part of it.

There were moments I thought I was moving backwards when I was actually being redirected.

There were days when the only productive thing I did was get back up and try again tomorrow.

What keeps me going is simple: I know why I’m doing the work.

And when your “why” is clear, the setbacks don’t feel like stop signs.

They feel like checkpoints.

Success isn’t built from perfect days.

It’s built from the days you refuse to quit on yourself.

I’ve learned that effort without strategy is just movement.
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For a long time, I worked hard, really hard, but nothing seemed to change.
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Projects dragged.
Results felt random.
Progress looked busy, not meaningful.
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Then I started slowing down long enough to think.
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Not just about what to do next.
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But why I was doing it at all.
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That’s when everything shifted.
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Strategy gives your energy direction.
It turns random wins into repeatable systems.
It makes saying “no” just as powerful as saying “yes.”
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Now, I spend more time designing the game than playing it blindly.
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Because without strategy, even your best effort can end up in the wrong place.

Things rarely go the way you planned.

And that’s usually the win.

You map out a path.

Then life hands you a different one.

The intro you didn’t expect.
The launch that failed.
The client who showed up because something else broke.

The process feels uncomfortable because it’s shaping you.

It’s building the version of you that can handle what you’re asking for.

Trusting the process isn’t passive.
It means staying in motion when the outcome is blurry.
It means doing the work when the numbers aren’t cheering for you yet.

Look back at any big moment.

The setback was a setup.
The delay was protection.
The redirection was an upgrade.

Things really do work out better than the plan.

But only for the people who keep going long enough to see it.

Entrepreneurship isn’t about having the perfect idea.

It’s about noticing the small problems everyone else overlooks.

And caring enough to fix them.

Some of the best businesses started from something that looked silly at first:

A tiny inconvenience.

A repeated frustration.

A “why hasn’t anyone solved this yet?” moment.

That’s all it takes.

One problem, one spark of curiosity, and the courage to build a solution when no one else does.

The real skill isn’t innovation.

It’s paying attention.

I can trace every major change in my life back to a single moment where I finally stopped thinking…
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And decided.
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Not a perfect decision.
Not a guaranteed decision.
Just a real one.
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We underestimate how much power sits in those small turning points.
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The email you actually send.
The conversation you finally start.
The risk you stop postponing.
The opportunity you stop talking yourself out of.
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Action doesn’t solve everything, but it gives you something thinking never will:
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Momentum.
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And once momentum shows up, life starts opening in ways you couldn’t predict on paper.
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I’ve learned that one decision won’t magically fix your life.
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But it will change your direction.
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And direction is everything.

The voice in your head can be your biggest bottleneck.
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I’ve seen it in my own life.
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When things got tough, it wasn’t the market or the strategy that broke first.
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It was my inner dialogue.
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Once that voice went negative, everything slowed.
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Momentum.
Creativity.
Clarity.
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So I changed how I talked to myself.
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No hype.
No affirmations.
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Just the same tone I use with my team.
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Clear.
Direct.
Encouraging.
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And things shifted.
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The problems didn’t vanish.
I just stopped getting in my own way.
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Positive self-talk isn’t about pretending everything is great.
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It’s about giving yourself the same belief you give everyone else.
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Do that, and you stop being the bottleneck.

Before I became a dad, I thought goals were about me.

My drive, my ambition, my timeline.

But when you have kids, everything shifts.

Suddenly, “later” isn’t good enough.

You start showing up differently.

Not just for yourself.

But for the little eyes watching you.

Every choice starts carrying a quiet question:

“What example am I setting?”

Fatherhood didn’t slow me down.

It sharpened me.

It made my reasons stronger, my time tighter, and my focus cleaner.

Because once you realize your kids don’t just hear your words.

They model your actions.

You stop chasing success for ego.

You start building it for legacy.

I used to think change came from big moments.

But most of my growth came from small, consistent decisions.

Nothing shifts until you shift first.

That’s the part we usually avoid.

My change started when I listened to the voice in my head.

It leaned on doubt and old stories.

I didn’t ignore it.

I challenged it.

That alone changed my choices.
Then I looked at my habits.
Not the impressive ones, the everyday ones.

How I start my morning.
How I handle stress.
How I talk to myself.

Those habits either moved me forward or held me back.

Finally, I started reflecting more.

What’s pulling me down?
What needs adjusting?
Who am I becoming?

Reflection made the next step clearer.

Change is simple, not easy.

Awareness.
Better habits.
Regular reflection.

Shift those, and your life shifts too.

Being a businessman and an entrepreneur don’t mean the same thing.

A businessman focuses on selling the need.

Clear demand.

Clear numbers.

Clear processes.

It’s steady and predictable.

And it works.

But an entrepreneur sees something different.

We look for wants people haven’t voiced yet.

We question why the problem exists in the first place.

We build where certainty doesn’t exist.

That’s the real distinction.

A businessman optimizes.

An entrepreneur rethinks.

Both are important.

But knowing which one you are changes how you make decisions, how you lead, and how you take risks.

And if you’re honest with yourself about which path you’re on,

You’ll stop comparing and start building with a lot more clarity.

There were times I felt completely stuck.

Not because I didn’t know what to do.

But because I thought the next step had to be big.

Turns out, it never does.

Progress usually starts with something so small it feels insignificant.

Replying to one email.

Going for a short walk to clear your head.

Writing a single sentence of that big idea.

And somehow, that one small action breaks the weight of inertia.

I’ve learned that momentum doesn’t come from clarity.

Clarity comes from momentum.

So when I feel stuck now, I stop overthinking.

I just move.

Because the smallest step forward still beats standing still.

I realized something that changed everything for me:

The people around me were either helping me grow or keeping me exactly where I was.

For a long time, I didn’t question my circle.

We had history, routines, and habits that felt automatic.

But I started paying attention to one thing after every conversation:

Did I feel clearer or drained?

That question exposed a lot.

I began choosing friends who think for themselves,

Who take action,

Who talk about what they’re building instead of what they’re avoiding.

People who challenge me in a real way, not a negative one.

Once I raised my standards, my environment shifted almost on its own.

Better conversations.

Better energy.

Better decisions.

Your circle is not just who you hang out with.

It’s who you become more like without noticing.

Choose people who lift your thinking, not limit it.

Sometimes life gives a moment that feels like meeting your old self again.

Not the polished version.

Not the “post-growth” version.

Just the person who once felt strong, creative, and fully alive.

Everyone deserves that moment at least once more.

Not because the past was better.

But because remembering who you were can unlock who you can become.

Old strengths matter.
Old passions matter.
Feeling “great” again matters.

That moment isn’t the finish line.
It’s a spark.

A reminder that there’s still more in you.

A reminder that you’re not done.

Everyone deserves that spark.

I never changed much when life was comfortable.

The real shifts happened when something knocked me off balance.

Those moments don’t feel inspiring.

They feel inconvenient.
Unwanted.
Sometimes unfair.

But they force you to pay attention.

They make you question your habits, your choices, your priorities.

Every time I’ve been shaken, I’ve stood up with a clearer mind and a simpler plan.

Less noise.
More intention.
Disruption isn’t dramatic.

It’s directional.

Sometimes you need that jolt to realign with who you’re actually trying to become.

For a long time, I thought courage meant feeling fearless.
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But real courage is doing it while you’re scared.
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Fear never really goes away.
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It just changes shape.
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New goals, new risks, same butterflies.
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The difference is what you do with it.
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You can let it shrink your world…
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Or let it shape your growth.
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Every time I’ve faced fear head-on, it’s revealed something I didn’t know about myself:
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Resilience, creativity, strength I didn’t think I had.
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That’s why you don’t beat fear by waiting for it to disappear.
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You beat it by moving forward anyway.

There’s real peace in walking away from noise.
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Not every comment deserves your correction.
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Not every opinion deserves your energy.
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Not every argument deserves your presence.
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I’ve learned that silence can be power.
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Not weakness.
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When you stop reacting to every careless word, you start protecting your clarity.
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And clarity is where strength, creativity, and growth live.
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You don’t owe a response to nonsense.
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You owe yourself peace.

I used to think everyone was playing the same game.

Same rules.
Same timeline.

Not true.

Some start ahead.
Some start behind.
Some carry invisible weight.

Things shifted when I stopped comparing and just paid attention.

The intern juggling two jobs isn’t disorganized.
He’s exhausted.

The founder who feels distant isn’t cold.
She’s protecting herself.

The employee who goes quiet isn’t unmotivated.
He’s overwhelmed.

I’ve had seasons like that too.

Looked fine on the outside, struggling on the inside.

What helped was simple: give people more room.

Give myself room too.

Here’s the takeaway:

Empathy doesn’t slow you down.
It keeps people with you.

Lead from that place and teams grow.

People grow.

I used to catch myself saying things like “I’m not good at this” or “I always mess this up.”
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And the more I said it, the more it felt true.
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One day I tried something different.
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Instead of “I can’t,” I said “I’m learning.”
Instead of “This is hard,” I said “This is new.”
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It didn’t change reality overnight.
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But it changed me.
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The energy I brought.
The patience I had.
The way I showed up.
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Your words are the instructions your mind follows.
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So make them gentle.
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Make them honest.
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Make them lift you, not limit you.

There are things in my life that I don't share to the world.
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I put my walls up around them.
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Not because I’m hiding anything.
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But because some things deserve to stay untouched by opinions, noise, and algorithms.
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Privacy isn’t secrecy.
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It’s protection.
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It’s the quiet space where you process, heal, and make sense of things before they’re ready for daylight.
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In a time where everyone’s broadcasting everything,
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I’ve learned that what you don’t share is just as powerful as what you do.
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Protect your peace.
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Not everything sacred needs an audience.

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