Chris Savage
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Um, and I think also the other thing about the SMB space, as you know, is just, it takes time, right?
Like it's hard to find all those folks.
So it's hard to build that brand equity.
Um, and so, but that's the path we've chosen and it's, it's been good for us.
Launched in 2006.
We got the acquisition offer in 2017.
And we only ever raised two angel rounds.
So for a total of 1.4 million, we raised 650,000 in 2008.
And another about 800,000, a little less than that in 2010.
Okay.
No, no.
It was a very small amount.
I mean, especially in today when we see how much people raise for a seed round.
Yeah.
Yeah, we raise very little.
We're incredibly capital efficient.
And that was from the beginning.
Like when we started the business, my co-founder and I were both very fortunate in that we graduated college without debt.
My dad was a professor and had a good deal.
And so we saved the meager amount we earned the first year of school.