Bassem Handy
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I mean, we guessed.
So we hired our first engineer and guy sat at Pune, India.
He's still with us.
He's actually SVP of automation today.
And we, it was me, my co-founder, Ron Goldschmidt, and a gentleman by the name of Ash Kapoor.
And then we started adding more and more people, obviously, but the first client was a friend of mine.
So three co-founders.
Sega.
No, well, I mean, technically there's two and Ash was kind of the first technical hire.
So a friend of mine had a robotic issue.
They needed to work with Meta, Facebook, on a project management platform that Facebook wanted them to use.
And they were forced to hire people to do data entry into this Facebook platform to do this data center construction project.
So we said, this is a great use case.
I think we charged them like $12,000.
for the entire project.
We were just hoping for anything.
We really just needed proof points.
And we literally went out there and built a robot that took data from the general contractor system and put it into Metasystem and vice versa.
Because they're obviously, when you have a cross platform like that, there's no API access.
I think that's really kind of the fundamental.