Gerard Adams
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I believe that deal, thinking back, was around 20,000.
We were doing at that time... Just 2012, right?
Yeah.
I think we were doing about 40 million unique visitors.
Well, at the time that we sold, we were at 80 million unique visitors.
No, I don't believe so.
Believe it or not, it's with algorithms and things that have changed, I think that we're still pretty close to around where we were.
About 80?
Yeah.
So there was, uh, you know, honestly, we owe it all to everybody on the team.
Um, you know, at the time we're now over 200 employees at the time of the sale was about 65 employees.
Um, three of us co-founded it together.
Myself, David Arab of, um, who was 19 at the time where, you know, it was like an apprentice of mine when we first started now, you know, became CEO.
Um, I backed the idea, um, and became the president of the company initially.
Then Jonathan San Pedro was the COO.
I did.
We bootstrapped it, but it was my, my capital initially.
And then we, um, we kind of bootstrapped it with another incubator that came in after about six months.
We started proving the concept.
The total capital like bootstrapped was around 60,000.