Erling Lind
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And I guess we were seeing more traction in North America and also a huge market, of course, for us.
So although we were able to successfully
sell to clients from Europe.
There is obviously a time zone issue here and the team was working longer and longer hours and I think we just needed to scale up that.
Got it, so it's a North American expansion.
I think we considered that, but I think coming from a bootstrap company where we originally didn't have any plans to raise anything, our plans was to continue bootstrapping, being an employee-owned company, making that sort of transition, we wanted to do it in a, I guess,
stepwise way and that felt like the most sensible way forward for us and the company.
That's what we wanted to do.
That was what excited us to keep building the company.
Yeah, I'm not sure we got that offer, but I think for us, we wanted to, we're not doing this only for the money.
We love building a company and love the learning journey as we grow and continue.
So I guess for us, that was the step we wanted to do.
There are almost 40 now in five countries.
I guess I started initially, but then Nikolai is the UX person, joined very soon after that.
And then Jonah, our CTO, who's London-based, joined
Maybe a year after that, and then Andreas has been the early salesperson that joined after that.
So that's kind of the four of us that we consider.
No, I guess I... So I'm based in Oslo, Norway.
On Monday, I'll be in London onboarding our new VPL sales there.
But in August, I'm moving to Toronto, Canada with my family and going to be there for the next years to really expand the...