Conor Moules

Just don't know if we're going to be able to get the fundraising in place.

And we raised 750 grand off those salons.

Where they were like, no, we need this now.

Do you know what I mean?

We're too invested in this not to kind of have it.

And that's kind of sent a signal, not only to us that this is what we should do, but also to the wider market that, well, if salons are willing to put their money where their mouth is, how can some VC tell me that there isn't a need here?

Do you know what I mean?

So it kind of checkmated that.

And, yeah, I was pretty gleeful about going back and telling a couple of them as well.

But, yeah, look at... I bet.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I think all founders kind of run on a bit of that, right?

Half of them.

Yeah, and it's crazy, right?

Because when you look at it, what that gave us was...

relationships that it was bigger than us like taking that like we always talk about it like taking and obviously all our investors we deeply value them we love you all equally yeah just the early ones but taking those because the salad like we have investors that have portfolios of investments like these salons had never invested in a thing outside of themselves before

Like, Bitcoin came and went.

They didn't even know it was there.

Do you know what I mean?

They weren't day traders.