George Arison
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And then, you know, they paid for that inspection.
We wouldn't actually touch the car besides the inspection, but that was how we got into the market.
And then it was actually kind of the users that drove us towards taking cars to a warehouse because they were asking us to do that.
They're like, Hey, um, I like this inspection, but why don't you just go and do this work for me?
And so then we started to bring cars into, into our warehouse.
Oh, I think it was like $2,000.
I love that.
You got to start somewhere, right?
You got to start somewhere.
And it was very, very small.
And then 20, I actually don't remember for sure what our 2014 revenue was.
I mean, I would have probably guessed like sub $150,000.
$150,000.
Got it.
Yeah.
Because we were really focused on, well, there's a couple of things.
One is we were very focused on product market fit and really kind of understanding what the product market fit for the business was going to be.
And secondly, you know, pricing in cars is really complicated.
And it's actually probably the single biggest engineering problem we're working on is how do you price cars accurately?
But in the beginning, we oftentimes made mistakes, obviously, like we would probably miss price costs because we didn't have all the needed technology.