Gaurav Dhillon

I'm gonna get out of Silicon Valley.

And so I did.

Anyway, so how did I get here?

So basically what I did after Informatica, as you can imagine, after the time off, came back to the Valley and then boom, it begins, right?

You know someone who knows someone who has an idea.

And many ideas came up.

I joined a couple of boards.

I was on a board with then what became our investors in recent Horowitz.

I was on a board with them, a couple other not sort of pro bono type of board things.

People had helped me and it was time to help others.

And from that, I was in a board meeting and, you know, it became pretty clear that this business internet, as we called it, I'm ashamed to admit about it.

10 odd years ago, which we now call cloud computing, is going to be a big deal.

You know, people aren't just going to buy books on the web.

They're going to balance their books on the web.

And and as that became clear, it became clear to me that there was an opportunity for integration.

Yeah.

So the company actually, I put the capital into, I would say, a science project in about 2006 from my pro bono work on various boards.

And I said to these guys, the first couple of five, six people, I wrote them a check and said, guys,

If there's a business here, prove it to me.

And if it is, we'll go get the capital for it.