Chris Straw

Um, you know, we, uh, we had an agency team that was very focused on how, um, to consult.

And so we needed to build a company that was focused on the SAS product.

And so, um, you know, it's, it's something that I wish we could have kept more folks from the agency side.

Um, but only really four rolled over.

Um, so it's, it's eight new folks and four existing folks.

Yeah, we're actually we're we're sort of probing right now, you know, with our traction, we've got a lot of kind of interest in in doing a nontraditional raise before the end of the year, before we move into a more traditional like, you know, C plus series a kind of thing in Q1 of next year.

So somebody that's looking to preempt to get in now that wants to be a part of this.

And we're basically saying like, what would be the best investment partners that we could work with?

And we're picking that like top 20 list and targeting those folks as, hey, these are the folks that we really want on our cap table.

We really want to be a part of our team.

Let's talk to them now.

If we get a term sheet out of that, awesome.

If not, we have plenty of runway to do this in Q1 in a more like standardized, like let me go have 40 meetings in a month kind of thing.

Uh, yeah.

Um, so Melanie from Canva has has done some really incredible stuff and it's, uh, uh, uh,

You know, I had the opportunity to listen to her speak at this really, sorry, I'm sort of stumbling.

Let me try that again.

So Melanie Perkins is who I'm watching right now.

Her work with democratization at scale is something that we really aspire to inside of Knapsack.

And so kind of as somebody that proved that democratization story, it's been awesome to see the success that Canvas seen.