Jaden Schaefer

So I thought, let's just post on Reddit.

So they started just spamming Reddit, basically.

in a bunch of different AI focused subreddits, they were giving free access in exchange for feedback.

And actually, this worked, they got a bunch of beta users that turned into paying customers.

And within nine months, they quit their jobs, and they'd hit $1 million in revenue.

So with all of that, they this is a funny quote from them.

They said six months in customer started saying I want to run real business workloads, I can't do that on servers in someone's basement.

And

And so that's when they decided that, you know, maybe they need to look at raising money.

Raising venture capital wasn't the initial plan.

They had, you know, kind of partnered with some data centers on a revenue share deal to expand.

And that actually worked.

They said it was a little bit tense, but it was working.

They didn't have to go raise money.

They said, if we don't have GPU availability, user sentiment flips immediately.

When people don't see capacity, they leave.

So they said that their community was growing on Reddit and Discord, especially after ChatGPT launched.

And at the same time, they said that's when investors started reaching out to them.

So Malik reached out after seeing them mentioned on Reddit.

And of course, they didn't really know how to pitch to VCs, but they walked him through their software.