Alex Mehr

Yeah.

So, I mean, um, we, we had very high ambitions, ambitions, and one of the things that we really cared about was staying independent so that we could, uh, execute on the mission of the company.

Um, and, uh, you know, I'm being bought by a company like I see, obviously that was not a preferred choice, um, for us.

So that's the main reason we wanted to stay independent.

Uh, yeah.

So again, you know, uh,

Your audience is probably familiar.

When you go public, you make projections about the growth rate and what you want to do financially on a quarter-by-quarter basis.

So we went through those motions, and end of the day, we decided that in order to run a sustainable, long-term, profitable company,

what we wanted to do and what the public market expected from us, expected from, frankly, other tech companies that were going public were different.

So, for example, as one example, we didn't want to

push the company too hard on delivering massive quarter over quarter growth.

That is something that we cared about, but not as much at the time.

And most importantly, not at the expense of other metrics that matter to us.

So we decided it was just basically not a fit.

So we decided to pull back.

We launched that company end of 2007, early 2008.

Yes, I had a co-founder, yes.

Oh, no.

The two of us, we were 50-50 on everything.