Q not Back in like 20, it must be 2008 or something like that, and, and you'd always have to, oh, I'm buying something, control T, new tab, search coupons, and Honey just baked that right into the browser. Made a ton of sense. Um, and so, and so, uh, what was the first dollar into the business? Like, how, how did you make the first dollar of revenue, I guess?
A The first dollar of revenue didn't come until 2015. So, let's launch the product 20 12, 2015. Um, we pieced together kind of a rolling seed round of anybody that would take a flyer on this company with a couple 100,000 users and maybe interesting, but haven't really figured it out. And we use that to hire somebody with a background in affiliate marketing. And we had, we being George and I, co-founders of the company had thought that this might make sense. Cause after all retail me, not just mentioned and other companies, that's how they monetize this. Uh, when you click on that retail may not link, it's actually affiliate tagging you at that moment in time. And so you go to do that coupon search and whether the coupon works or not, it's, uh, they're getting an affiliate commission on that. And that's why there's the, they hide the code and open multiple tabs and do all that stuff. So that was how it was. And we're like, Hey, we could probably monetize that way. Uh, we, George and I reached out to the affiliate world and. They, they basically were like, you guys are a toolbar. You probably are up to no good. Go away. And so we did. Um, we didn't realize that there had been some bad actor toolbars in the space, uh, immediately prior to that, which was, uh, it's like a surprise to learn, but we went back to just building a cool product for consumers. And then, um, when we hired so…
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