Brendan King

I mean, we, we actually started in 2008, but we had to do some consulting because we had to eat and we always had a plan.

I was too with, uh, you know, and I just left, um, voluntarily my, uh, my last company, uh,

and had a child on the way, and so it was a heck of a year to start a company, that's for sure.

But it was, you know, we, like I said, we did some consulting work, and we did the, our first real product revenue was 2011 in March to Hearst and Zip Local, which was a yellow page in a newspaper.

So, you know, those aren't the best maybe industries to be tied to, but we've really diversified since then into a lot of other industries.

And it was about, you know, we actually, you know, so we came from a company called Point2 where we built sort of Caterpillar's used global trading system.

So catused.com and we built a thing called Point2 Agent, which later, which had about,

you know, 150,000 realtors using this product.

And later that sold to Yardi.

So we, you know, I came from, we were doing SaaS before it was really SaaS because that was all software as a service back then.

Um,

Yeah, well, I was the COO of the company and I had a small share, so it wasn't, I don't really, and it was after I left, so I got paid out, but I'm not really sure exactly what they sold it for.

A little bit, not enough to, yeah, not.

I think it was about $1.3 million, and what we did was we got money from a heavy equipment industrial auctioneer called Ritchie Brothers, and we used what they prepaid us to start that company.

And then we ended up writing a business plan and raising $3 million on an idea in August of 2008.

It was a government-backed VC, and we paid all that money back, so it's not in our cap table.

But that $3 million in those days was really everything that started our company forward.

And like any other company, we had a different idea.

We were going to build, it was going to be called My Front Steps.

It was going to be a social network for homeowners where you could share your home with friends and family to get ideas and inspiration.