Christof Wittig

Absolutely.

Buckle up.

They are absolutely on a tear, and we love Bertrand, the leadership over there, and it's a very joyful investment we're having.

It came actually at the same time.

Strive Capital initiated as key capital after I sold my second company, Servo Software.

I started a fund that was focused on mobile apps.

And while doing investments as an entrepreneur, I always felt like, you know, like a music critique.

I wanted to do something and build something.

This is really in my bones all my life.

And so I started Hornet on the side because I was very disappointed in the user experience of the existing gay apps.

And Hornet was really a side project while I was starting my investment career.

And today it's my career.

Servo Software.

That has been a mobile middleware company focusing on the Android platforms or something very technical and B2B.

And in fact, Hornet has been my first started consumer business apart from the investment side.

That was in 2004.

It started off as an embedded Java framework and it pivoted when Android came about, which was basically the leading implementation of embedded Java to become a middleware platform for mobile operators and handset manufacturers.

And that gave me a good insight into the on-deck and underneath the hood part of the mobile stack, but also the understanding of

what it meant to go into the app store and over the top, and how disruptive mobile would be to every industry as a channel and as a platform to connect people.

And since I'm a gay man, I also, of course, thought about how this platform can help strengthen the gay community and create a better user experience than what had been out there at the time.