Guru Bhattacharya
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Podcast Appearances
We have AWS data.
And he was like, can we analyze this to really find out like what failed?
Like why did we mess up?
And what kind of led to this like downfall basically?
So we were like, okay, one last attempt.
We're going to go back and look at all this data.
And we find out that we have 40,000 users from Verizon using us for free.
So we were like, why are so many users from Verizon using us?
And so we reached out to one of the HR leaders and we were like, hey, you know, just want to let you know we're shutting down the platform.
And she was upset.
She was like, don't shut it down because we rely on this.
We go do all these community events.
We do our corporate social responsibility to this.
So that was really cool, right?
So that was a really great insight.
They actually decided to pay us $1.45 million because that was in their budget of what they were spending or looking for a platform that year in 2021, which gave us enough runway to survive.
We did pivot, however, into the realm of AI.
That is correct.
Yep.
That was 2021.