James Sturges

You know, we did a little bit and I think, you know, keeping it really simple to start, especially for where we are and where we wanted to go was, you know, was a big goal of ours.

Um, so, so we did kind of consider that and we considered a couple of different options.

We even talked to a few VCs that, you know, kind of wanted some more aggressive terms, if that makes sense.

And, you know, we just we decided at least right now we want to be very strategic in the capital that we get, how much capital that we get and sort of what we're giving up for that.

So I think Elon Musk is incredibly interesting mostly because one of the things that he said that stuck with me the most was around decision making and the importance of just making decisions right or wrong because you can always correct them later, but it's much more costly to not be able to make a decision.

What billing tool in terms of billing for customers?

So right now, I mean, we do QuickBooks, of course, but a lot of it is still sort of manual.

No, we're not.

Okay, number four.

All of our major customers prefer to send us checks.

Yeah.

So, you know, yeah.

So to be fair, we have one on the way, so not yet, but it's in the picture.

Yeah.

What do I wish my 20 year old self knew?

Um, you know, honestly experience.

I think, uh, a younger me thought,

I would go work with a bunch of people, or education was really important, and education is really important, and I was just going to work up through the ranks.

But the thing that I think I have learned over the years is that talking to as many different people and customers as possible is great, and frankly, having a mentor.

I think the biggest thing for me was I had two really solid mentors growing up, or growing up through my career, I guess, 20 until now.