Bailey Pumfleet

And we sort of now do that with our employees.

We might touch on that a bit more later.

But the idea is we don't just hire people off the bat.

We work with them as contractors, then actually move into a proper arrangement with them.

ironically this was the foundation of the company which peer sold uh it was called lean hire and it's essentially like a contractor hire platform where you actually just work at a company as a full-on contractor for like two weeks a month something like that and then you move on to like a formal job offer so we kind of applied that concept to to sort of trying me out as um as a founder and you know naturally we found that it worked

No, essentially the idea was is originally it was going to lean towards him being like a minority share just because he wasn't able to put much time towards it.

Obviously, he had quite a committed job.

But then later on, we actually changed the agreement.

Once he decided he was actually going to move to Cal.com full time, that's when we decided to split it 50-50.

Yeah, essentially, like I respected his position.

Obviously, you know, he had a decent job on deck and was, you know, very occupied with that.

But I think it was, you know, it was a clear it was a clear agreement from me to say that, you know, when he could devote his time to it, you know, it would have been massively helpful and massively beneficial to have him on board in a greater capacity.

So that moves on to the interesting part of the story.

So literally, I built the most basic MVP, really strain on the word MVP there.

I built it for like three weeks.

And this thing, I mean, it was hard-coded to Google Calendar.

You couldn't use anything else.

And it just about made a booking.

I don't actually think it even had proper time zone support.

I think for me, it was hard-coded to the London time zone.