Henry Shapiro

And, you know, it's,

It was one of those decisions.

I think our sense was like, this is really the time you get to bring those people into the cap table where it makes sense for them.

I almost think of it more as like pools.

You know, we've got we had pools of people that were in our network that we knew of that we were like, these are great people we want to work with.

And we think they might be interested in investing.

There were people that the institutionals who we were working with introduced us to and including Shardul and at the time MZ from Gradient.

Tope was an interesting story because Tope actually we met.

because Patrick hung out in a Slack channel where a number of folks basically Mix Max, Calendly, a number of other calendar services hang out in there.

And we all talk about various bugs that we're running into with the Google Calendar API.

There was this issue that had been plaguing all of us for like two months where Google would just totally crap the bed every week or so, almost like clockwork.

Um, Patrick was part of the, you know, kind of group that identified the issue and he worked with Calendly's VP of engineering to, you know, troubleshoot and triage it.

Um, we knew we wanted to talk to Tope as part of our round.

And so we, you know, said, Hey, you know, if you, if you'd be interested in introducing us to him, we'd love to talk to him.

And, um,

Yeah, we got along.

I think the big story that we were telling was, you know, a couple of things.

So the first is, you know, this is a sort of a nascent market where there is a lot of sort of, you know, I would call it sort of a lot of overlapping opportunity.

And we're kind of right at the center of project management, scheduling and calendaring, both of which are kind of these, you know, interesting and sort of growing markets.

I think the biggest thing, though, that convinced investors was ultimately user stickiness and user engagement.