Q Okay, that's good. Alright, take me back to your first, it sounds like your first big win, templatemonster.com. So, so, it sounds like you were a refugee. I mean, how soon did you launch that company after you were a refugee and moved to Ukraine?
A Yeah, it was, uh, 16 years ago. Like I was a first degree student in the university. I met a guy from New York and we, we kind of like, uh, got together well, and, uh, he offered me to, to launch the digital agency, like web design agency. And so we, I was like an outsourcing division, you know, like, cause, uh, labor costs in Ukraine are, were much lower, you know, like than in the U S. And then, you know, like we, when we started web design, we kind of didn't like it. Cause like there was a lot of back and forth communications and lots of, you know, uh, corrections and revisions. And then, you know, like I found my, um, most productive designer. He was really fast. He was using some sort of elements, you know, like to complete the websites. And I asked him like, what are you doing? What, what do you use it? It's like, this is my template. And I tried to Google, not Google, Google was non-existing back then, you know, like it was Yahoo. So I, I searched for it and I, I found that there were no templates for web designers. So like we asked him to create 31st templates we published online and within first couple of months we took, we got like 70,000 dollars in sales. And after two years, we got like one million dollars in sales. Then I created the affiliate program. We got like ten million dollars in sales. Like it was growing and booming. We basically created web templates indu…
AI assessment note: “it was, uh, 16 years ago. Like I was a first degree student in the university.”