Q Yeah. So, so tell me, fill out the funding story a little bit. First off, when, when did you do the first round and why was it important for you to get that first round done?
A Oh, I think, like, we didn't raise immediately. Most of the initial, I wouldn't say, like, nine months went in customer research. We're not from the industry. It was a very thesis-driven startup for us. Um, I, I mean, some context is I used to be, I used to work at Accel before this, investing in a lot of SaaS companies, and we saw this problem and wanted to solve for it, but spend the next six, nine months just figuring out our wedge into the market, right? Like, one, it's a two-sided network, so we have to solve for chicken and egg. But which side would we solve for? How would we penetrate with such a sharp value prop inside is what we spend time. So we didn't write a single line of code. I want to say at least 12 months into the company, right? Which is just being sure that, hey, we are committed to this. We've figured an entry point, and that's when we raised our initial seat round.
AI assessment note: “at least 12 months into the company... that's when we raised our initial seat round.”