Guru Bhattacharya

Yeah, super excited to be here.

Thanks for the opportunity.

And like I was telling you, Nathan, I'm such a big fan of the podcast and it's an honor to be here.

Yeah, sounds good.

So we've had a kind of like a roller coaster journey.

So I'll kind of start from the top here.

So when we started Involve, we started it as a, you know, our goal was, hey, we'll start an employee experience platform.

So we were like, hey, people would go and give back to the community.

That's what me and my co-founder were really passionate about.

So we started as a B2C application.

And what year was that?

And this was in 2017.

So we've been involved with a very long journey now, multiple products.

So

2017, we started this company.

We raised a little bit of seed money.

We raised $1.5 million and we got to tons of users.

And so we were sending millions of people around the world, do community events and volunteering events around them.

But we could just never find how to monetize this.

We were not able to make any money or make it a sustainable business.