Aaron Lee

We said, great, we're going to bootstrap the company.

We're going to build the product heads down.

And by the time we launched in TechCrunch and took the top prize in 2009, we actually got the funding within less than a month from Ramrock and Mayfield.

How much did you raise?

Seven and a half.

And what valuation?

I actually don't remember.

I think it was like, yeah, probably close to 30.

Yeah.

And then what happened after?

And we just took the money expanding to nationwide.

And Replicant was a platform to connect the homeowners with home improvement professionals.

And when we start expanding the platform to nationwide, we got the notice of Home Depot.

And turns out Home Depot has been thinking about it for quite a while because they actually have

two-size marketplace, the pros, like the contractors and the homeowners.

Yeah, I think it was somewhere like 10 plus around that time.

But I think the biggest opportunity is Home Depot has all the ingredients.

They have the distribution channels, 2,000 stores.

They have the two-sided marketplace, homeowners and the pros.

And they're also very excited to get into building that connection between the homeowners.