Dennis Mortensen

The worst thing that can happen right now is that I start to pollute my data set because I think I have everything solved.

So we are extremely protective about that data set.

So when you say something to Amy and that ends up being labeled and annotated in our data set, I need to make sure that that is true and honest.

We are now just at the inflection point for where we believe we have enough confidence in the data that we have for where we'll be less sensitive to what arrives tomorrow.

So...

First, I can start just rewinding a little bit.

First, 50 beta testers was just friends of mine, the usual, hey, guys, I know you don't have an assistant, and I'm sure I can help you out here, start using it.

That was certainly how I built up that initial pool.

Their use of the product kind of brought the next 400.

And that kind of gave me that kind of 500 people actively kind of using the product, which was friends and friends of friends.

Then we ran...

a pretty successful kind of waitlist as we were kind of working that very initial MVP, which was certainly not robust enough to be a chargeable product in market.

And on that, we ran up hundreds of thousands of people on that waitlist simply because there was a grand lust to remove this chore.

We did that the first year.

So we launched that probably in mid-2015, something like that.

And then ran to kind of robust six figures over the next year, year and a half.

And then we started to kind of roll into that first kind of commercial version, yes.

here's the funny thing.

So we surveyed about 5,000 people to find that initial price.

We got it wrong.