Q And why'd you decide to make the decision to raise instead of just keep bootstrapping?
A Um, yeah, I mean, I think the, it, it really, that's a decision that, um, really depends on kind of what your goals are and also what the market looks like and what you want to do. So, For us, we knew that this market was, there's lots of companies, um, you know, hundreds of thousands of companies that need visible. And so if you look at that, um, the, if you, if you want to win in that market, it's going to be really, really hard to do that bootstrapped. So, um, the, uh, and so we, we knew out of the gate that, that we wanted to raise venture capital and we, um, we wanted to build, Um, a business and, and service that whole market, which was going to require a lot of capital.
AI assessment note: “to win in that market, it's going to be really, really hard to do that bootstrapped”