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“We raised a million dollar valuation. So they bought a third of the business.”

“In twenty-twenty-one, I was, you know, trying to get customers that entire year, and we had effectively no growth, and there was a time, I remember, it was like early in twenty-twenty-one, I was like, can I just get rid of this thing? Like, it's causing me mor…”

“And then on the consumer side, actually, we have not had that second thing you mentioned, which was support issues. I think that's partially been How our entire team of three are all engineers, and we've kind of engineered our way out of some of those problems…”

“What matters is the job to be done right for the customer. And because the job to be done is training, then like you fall into that industry. Having a different product is fantastic from like a branding, finding a niche perspective. But the business model, rig…”

“Word of mouth is much higher in this industry. Than in other industries. So if people really like your thing, they're much more likely to share it than I think you is like the baseline in maybe SAS tooling B to B SAS tooling specifically.”

“We basically have like a split program where like we do the options thing just in case we sell, but also kind of a profit sharing plan on top of that, just because we don't know if we're going to sell.”

“Getting to know people, writing great stuff that kind of is adjacent to our product and getting in front of their audiences has honestly been a huge growth channel for us. And a lot of those people come in direct, right? So they'll like, Hear about us on someo…”

“We've been profitable this entire year. We have more money in the bank now than what we raised.”

“Lifetime value of the customer which is, you know, somewhere between like a hundred dollars and 300 dollars.”

“That was when we were about 26 K and the last three months have all been like, yeah, over 80 or 90. We've pulled a few growth levers that seem to have actually had some good returns on them. And we can get into that, but it's primarily YouTube.”

“Like this is not a tool that if you like it, you'll just use it for the rest of your life. Right. At the end of the day, whether someone succeeds with the product, Goes through the course, learns a ton, gets a job, or fails. They kind of get through the part t…”

“Our net revenue in, what was it, October of 20, 2310 thousand dollars. Our recurring revenue, about 50,000 dollars. Our revenue that came in that was recurring. It was like 30,000 dollars.”

“It's about a 50 50 split of about half our customers do annuals, half do monthlies”

“It is hard to teach backend development interactively in a browser. It's not as hard to do with the front end because JavaScript, CSS and HTML all render in a browser natively, right? So to build this interactive experience in a browser for backend developers …”