Q So when you took the concept of the registry to, uh, potential investors, what did they say?
A Uh, it, it was a really long slog. I mean, it was hard to raise money for anything that was female-centric in the digital space. And the fact that a large component of our business would now be predicated on e-commerce on top of advertising, you know, the, you know, the first question people said was like, they're not going to give you a credit card number. It's like, you know, people are too paranoid about that. Uh, they're not going to register. They're not going, you know, and, and I think we probably were marketing for almost a year Before we came across, uh, venture capitalists out on the West Coast that said, you know what, this is really interesting, and I think, you know, we're gonna take a flyer on this.
AI assessment note: “the first question people said was like, they're not going to give you a credit card”