Art Papas

I say, well, not quite.

Let me explain why.

10,000 paying customers, majority are in the United States and EMEA.

And then we also have, I'd say Asia's emerging for us.

So that's still a sort of a growth area for us.

Yeah, I wrote the first line of code in 99 in my apartment in Cambridge.

Yeah.

So we spent about a year and a half and I probably coded every day for like at least 60 hours a day, six days a week.

Sometimes I would take Sundays off, I think, but like, yeah, it was pretty intense for a long time.

And a lot of that was just wasted work trying to come up with products that people didn't want to use.

What's interesting is one of our investors introduced me to our first customer.

We did.

Our initial angel round was 1.4 million.

I couldn't tell a story.

My co-founder, he was amazing.

His network was amazing and he was an incredible salesperson and he very smart guy.

And he and I went to pitch investors.

And, you know, these were people who were like his boarding school friends.

And Roger came along later.

Because we realized with 1.4 million, we needed somebody to help actually figure out how are we going to spend this money and how are we going to manage it?