Amit Shanbhag

750K institutional investors got terms from two of them.

And the terms are just not favorable enough to continue.

And our growth curve was so good that we knew we would, we were going to be profitable in like a month, month and a half.

So about like six weeks into my fundraising, I stopped fundraising and decided to completely go bootstrapped.

I'm trying to think now.

We probably had in like the, you know, mid to low tens of thousands, right?

20 to 30,000 customers.

I mean, I don't know.

I think that the space is extremely crowded, right?

I can understand the reluctance that these people have because there are so many companies sort of trying to do something similar.

It's really hard to predict who the winner is going to be.

Who are some of the other ones?

Um, so, uh, the completely blanking on my customer, which isn't a bad thing.

That's a good thing.

That's a good thing.

Right.

A rapid relate IQ.

And then, um, there's one that mostly does APIs that I can't remember that people keep talking about.

Yeah.

Email hunter is one, one competitor that people keep talking about the big ones at data.com and who were right.