Ilya Semin
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No, I think... Come on, Ilya.
You know, for us, we actually didn't have to raise money at all.
We were profitable back then.
And we were making maybe a million dollars a year.
The problem when you start selling to enterprise customers is that they don't really like to deal with small companies, you know, two guys in the garage, like they don't like it.
So they're like, well, we're going to sign this three-year contract.
How do we know you're not going to go out of business tomorrow?
So we started to think about raising money.
So we raised a very good round and investors included somebody like Mark Cuban, for example,
and top VC firms like Google Ventures.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
He is very busy, obviously.
And right now it's, you know, I think they got into the playoffs.
Yep.
So I'm sure he's going to be very busy in the next few months.
Hopefully his team will be successful.
But yeah, he's a really nice person to work with.
That's for sure.
So we always measure in terms of ARR, right?