George Simons
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I think a lot of people raise money and then they...
feel like they have to spend that money quickly.
I think that's oftentimes the pressure that people put on themselves, unless it's like a later stage raise where they're giving up control of the company with a board seat or something like that.
I think in early stage fundraising, I think that the founders maintaining control of the company, if they want to spend that money really fast, then they can, or otherwise they can
uh, spend it slower to do more controlled growth.
Sure.
And you know, I think there's companies out there that have raised money and then gone silent for years.
Um,
I think as Zapier comes to mind, I'm not super familiar with their background, but I believe Zapier followed a path where they raised the Series A. And then I think they were kind of quiet for a while and they have a multi-billion dollar valuation.
I'm not fact-checking myself, but I think that's the situation.
Interesting.
That's a fair point.
I think on the other hand, I think raising money has also been great for, at the same time, allowing us to grow faster than we would have known.
Allowing us to make preemptive hires faster.
Next hire is more engineers.
Yeah, yeah.
Most of the filing stuff's already automated.
What we're doing is we are, according to my knowledge, the first and only company that is compiling a software stack that allows us to calculate the
filing information for different courts and then to file on those courts.
There's thousands of courts.