Alexandr (Alex) Wang

Cool.

I guess I'm going to go back to my job now.

So early on, I had no credibility except for with people I went to college with who we were just like friends and we liked each other.

And so I managed to recruit a bunch of them over.

They dropped out too?

Yeah.

Some of them dropped out.

Some of them just happened to, you know, were like seniors or whatever, finished school and then joined.

It was like a mix.

It was a mix.

And that was like the early nucleus of the team, the early sort of like cohort of the team.

And then we started picking up momentum because we're starting to work with large automotive companies.

We're starting to work with, you know, these very futuristic autonomous driving companies.

And then as momentum started to pick up, like, you know, we were able to grow and build out the team over time.

I...

Maybe about a year in, I hired somebody literally with the title head of business.

But until then, I was just kind of like, I was just trying to like learn it all.

How did you get the product out there?

Uh, I, uh, I just coded it all up and then there are like, I like put it out on one of these, there's all these like websites where you can launch startups and I put it out on the, we put it on one of those websites and, uh, it went like micro viral, you know, um, like viral among, uh,

like people who were on twitter to look for new startup ideas um and then it was kind of that was like the early seed that just that ended up uh enabling everything to grow but it was like i mean