want to

“And he said, ‘You know what I want to do,’” Pondexter recalled.

She said that while there was uncertainty across the globe right now, "businesses really just want to create the relationships and get on with doing business with each other and continue to look for further investment in some of our innovative companies".

Others might simply want to tell the league, “Thank U, Next.”

Tutu Atwell did not want to be anywhere else.

“This is how they talk about recruits? People who want to become cops. How do they talk about the public?” said Andrew Graebner, a longtime meeting attendee.