Q So like, what were you at scale-wise in 2000? Like, are you talking like ten million a year, or where were you at?
A So we were at that point, like, two million a year, and, uh, we grew it, like, pretty quickly to six million in the next years. Okay. Then, 203 was tough for us, because our customers at that point in time were the big telco companies, like Vodafone in Europe, and SoftBank, Japan, T-Mobile, and they had to cut Down cost because of the, um, that cost cost because of the UMTS licenses. So the three G licenses were so expensive that they started to cut costs. So three was our tough year. Then we basically, we were still growing with 20%. Okay. At some point in time, we were too late for the U S you know, because we didn't have the venture capital to basically enter the U S early and the U S is the biggest market. We saw the people coming from the U S to Europe, but we were not equipped With the money to do the code there. So we looked for a new attitude, new way to approach the US market. And what we figured out was there was last three years that commerce, e-commerce sites is the way to go. So we have a very powerful content management platform, but the e-commerce platform from IBM, Salesforce, and SAP, they are pretty bad at, uh, experience management. So they basically give you the transactional capabilities to sell stuff and pay for it, but they really don't look good.
AI assessment note: “we were at that point, like, two million a year”