Charlie Fritch

Give it up for Charlie Fritch.

Thank you.

I figured this might not be the most popular topic, but I'm glad you guys could join.

A little bit of background.

I started in the hotel industry long before we started our software business in the hotel industry.

I've owned a hotel real estate brokerage firm that lists and sells hotels, and I've had that company for 25 years.

We also owned a hotel.

We had done capital markets advisory for hotels, arranging mortgages for hotels.

Oh, great.

Thank you.

So that was how I got started in the industry.

And analyzing hotel profit and loss statements and all of the reporting for hotels

We've basically looking at the output of the accounting systems and all the software, we felt there was a need in the industry and an opportunity to create a more modern web-based, robust, integrated accounting and business intelligence platform.

So that's how we got started.

And I was fortunate to have a longtime friend who's a successful serial software entrepreneur.

He sold his first company to Cisco in 99 for 175 million.

And so he was our software and tech business advisor from the beginning.

And he said, well,

Don't, you know, an accounting platform is daunting to build from scratch.

So look at building on top of an existing ERP.