Johnny Bufferhat

we're lucky that we had a very, again, viral product.

So even in our private beta, someone would host an event, you have a good experience, about 1,800 people would show up to a private, one of our early access or really deep early access events.

And we were noticing that about 10% of people would go in and try and fill a form, would fill the form.

So attendee to user.

Yeah, attendee to user.

So for us, and that's what I meant by, you know, it was going to be hard for us not to be one of the fastest growing companies in the world.

And we need to have things in place because events are incredibly, you know, it's a great funnel.

You know, same Eventbrite had that a lot of these other event patterns have it.

But I think online events like the ones we're creating have it way more, about 10x, 20x.

So I already felt that way coming in.

I had built the product as a one-person team.

I think it was a mix of things.

There's a lot of it maybe to do with how the platform was built.

So I built the product basically on myself over two years, and it comes back to my story.

it may be a story for another time, but basically in, uh, by the time the product came out, I had already basically shown that the virality.

So I had, I had data showing the virality of the product.

Uh, and so when I went to venture capital, it was quite obvious that this product is going to absolutely blow up.

And I was, you know,

Anyone who wants to know a little bit more should see a demo of the product because it's very similar to the product now.

It's better designed.