Dax Raad

Yeah, that was kind of where our initial focus was.

Yeah, in terms of how we got into open source.

So after Ride Health kind of ended up in disaster, I took a job at a Series B stage startup.

At that time, for me, it was the biggest company I'd ever worked at.

And I eventually got put in a director role.

First time being a full-time manager with no other active programming tasks.

And I still wanted to program a lot.

So I ended up exploring a bunch of open source things at the time, you know, I like three or four hours of manager meetings every day.

But then outside of that, you know, I had time to explore open source, things like that.

And I started to build my own kind of crappy stuff.

And I came across SST, which had just launched, it was a

Maybe a couple months old.

That was Frank and Jay.

They both created this thing originally.

Started contributing to it.

They were raising a series.

They were raising a round.

They were kind of getting out of YC, raising a round.

I invested in that round.

And then a month later, I ended up joining the team and they gave me the money back as salary.