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Q Okay, so, I mean, two years, that was a big period. 2016 to 2018, what, what's going on? I mean, who's running the thing?
A Yeah. So I'd say it was the very end of 16th. You're really looking about 12, 18 month period. And so that was, you know, initially, as is often the founding story, you have your, your first engineers starting up and building the platform. You're just starting to think through the kind of vision and the commercialization and, and you're just beginning to take it to market, not really at market scale yet. Um, but, but just getting there. And so I was fortunate to, To work with, uh, Nigel and Matt Risley, who's on our board, Frank Rotman, uh, other great folks at QED and great folks on the team, uh, which was very small and, and, uh, initially just literally the, the equivalent of starting out of your garage in this case was starting it in the VC's basement, uh, which is where they were based. So, uh, we, you know, moved us out to our actual first office, kind of moved out of the basement, got our first apartment as it were, and, uh, and then went from there.
AI assessment note: “I was fortunate to, To work with, uh, Nigel and Matt Risley”
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Q Okay. So take me back to day one. When did you launch the company?
A So it's actually a really interesting story. So this is a venture build out of QED, uh, verticalized fintech funds started by Nigel Morris, who co-founded Capital One, and then co-founded with a number of his, uh, former, uh, colleagues and executives from Capital One, co-founded QED as a venture fund, and they started right around 2008, led the series A in Credit Karma, have, uh, now invest globally in fintech, have been very successful, and, and what they've done in venture, Uh, you know, that pattern recognition skill is tried and true. And so when they see an opportunity, uh, in the market where, where someone isn't necessarily taking advantage of the market dynamics or the opportunity for innovation, they'll stand something up. And so they actually, uh, effectively in an interesting way, we found, we co-founded the company with our initial venture capital investor QED. And that happened end of 20 16, early 20 17. And I actually joined when they, uh, got, you know, their first Uh, a little bit of traction, uh, as the first CEO of the team in, in mid 2018.
AI assessment note: “we co-founded the company... And that happened end of 20 16, early 20 17.”
