David Rusenko

I think

for a lot of our customers, you know, it makes sense as they're getting started to understand, are you selling today or are you going to sell later?

That's kind of really the delineation.

And, you know, I think over time, a lot of people are going to be upgrading to transacting online.

It's just sort of the logical next step.

Yeah, so we started – I wrote the first line of code in February 2006.

It was part of a class project at Penn State.

Continued working on it throughout that class and that summer.

We were interning in New York City, applied for it, got accepted to Y Comner that fall, moved out – skipped out, I should say, from our last semester of school because we all –

No, this was 2017 for simpler times, if you will.

Y Combinator had just gotten started.

Most companies that were applying for Y Combinator at that point in time were just idea stage.

That's obviously very different today.

At the time, I think we were one of, if not the furthest along company that had ever applied to and gotten into Y Combinator.

In terms of what though?

User base, code lines written, what?

So we had actually launched something.

Okay.

Um, and, and, and we had effectively launched a beta and that was at the time the furthest along, but there is no way that you could pay us even a single dollar that that wouldn't come for another couple of years.

People actually at one point in time were just mailing us unsolicited checks for 50 bucks saying, I'm really afraid you're going to go out of business.