Chris Straw
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Or do we actually take this and make it a SaaS product and become a product company?
And folks were a lot more interested in the latter than the former.
And so we... And who are the folks?
So there's, I mean, we talked to the whole company of about 12 people, but the leadership team was, was really the ones that were like super aligned on let's be a product company and which was five people.
It's me and my co-founder.
And then we have a head of customer success, a head of sales and marketing, a head of product.
That's exactly right.
And so we shut that down in shut the agency down in September, reincorporated as a C Corp in October and then started looking for funding.
Yeah.
So we raised this year.
We started looking for funding in October and it's tough to pull together funding in less than three months.
And so we had term sheets and stuff in November, December and did a, you know, small seed pre-seed round in January with like one or two customers and like 11K in annual revenue.
And, you know, have grown it a lot since then.
Yeah, I mean, that's an option.
I think that the hard part is, is that there's sort of this rising tide, right, of design systems.
We view this as a step change in the way that people think about building product.
And that market opportunity window is pretty small.
And so we could grow it organically, but it would take us four or five years to even get to the point that we're at today where, you know, we have a substantial base of large enterprise customers and a whole host of smaller customers.
So it varies a little bit because we have a self-serve offering in the enterprise offering.
We have, you know, about 15 enterprise customers and then, you know, a couple dozen smaller customers.