Ben Currin

What I saw as an opportunity, these kind of not sexy vertical software markets that were sneaky big.

Call it high single digit millions.

Right around 500 professional community association management companies.

That has within it 50,000 communities and over 6 million homes.

Let's do it.

Neither of those things, which is fun.

So I joined the team.

My business partner is Dave Sawyer, who's the original founder of the business.

I joined Dave and a couple of the founding kind of team members who were working in a services business that Dave owned.

And kind of this is one of those stories of a vertical SaaS business.

a software company that was built out of the industry.

So he owned a community association management company, think HOA management company.

Started to work together with some folks in his team to build software for that company.

They became the first kind of beta customer, and I joined kind of the next day, if you will.

But there's lots of hard work and blood, sweat, and tears that I did not participate in that first year of kind of beta testing and all that stuff.

But I joined Dave and kind of the founding team right at the beginning.

That was late 2017, early 2018.

And what's the archetype there?

No, so Dave, definitely the engineering guy.

Or sorry, the industry guy.