Eric Boggs

Uh, and eventually when sort of fire sale happened, you know, they were quick to swoop in and they got a good deal and, you know, investors got some, some of their assets back and, you know, it could have been a whole heck of a lot worse.

I think they bought, I think they licensed the core technology.

And then we sold the actual code base to another startup that was sort of ramping up similar product in a similar space.

Yeah, yeah.

At the time, it was this was an enterprise buyer, like, you know, selling marketing solutions to the Fortune 50.

And they had a very, very weak social story.

And so they saw the stuff that we had built as a natural fit to their platform.

And frankly, just a good story.

Some of the team went there and suddenly they could check the social box and some of the stuff that we had built, I think, dovetailed in nicely with some of the stuff that they were already selling to their customer base.

Yeah, before I was employee number one, like in a, you know, the office at the time was probably the size of, you know, your walk-in closet or maybe your bathroom.

And I was a really young guy at the time.

I was 22 when I joined Bronto.

And what was your role?

I was a one-man sales team for two and a half years.

Wow.

And, you know, you learn a lot.

I'd never really sold anything, even though in the interview, I kind of lied a little bit and said, yeah, I'd sold stuff.

I just really wanted to go work there and really want to work for a tech startup.

And first few months, it was miserable.

I hardly sold anything.