Q Did you lose people? Did you have to rehire?
A Yeah, we ended up, you know, a lot, some of the people on those teams, both in sales, was probably the, it was, it was sales and it was also the instructors. Those were, it was kind of most disruptive to those two groups because the instructors went from making, you know, 10,000 dollars a week to go teach a, maybe a four day course somewhere, to, ah, you know, making a royalty on a 20 dollar a month subscription. Without a big audience at the time, right? And so, like, coming to terms with that was, like, really difficult for some of those, those folks. Um, and we just said, just trust us. Like, if we build this thing, like, you know, you'll be able to do better financially. You're not going to be on a plane every week, and, you know, and I would say about half of them stayed with us, and half kind of fell to the side and found other things to do. Um, but the ones who believed, Our, our top earning authors today, and last year our top author made over two million dollars in royalties in a single year.
AI assessment note: “about half of them stayed with us, and half kind of fell to the side”