Jon Stein

We raised some money from ourselves.

We pooled our investment so that we could bring on a couple of employees.

And I think that initial investment was only maybe, it was less than $400,000 that we pulled together from ourselves and friends and families.

Those four founders that I mentioned all chipped in some money.

That's right.

It was really just founding the company.

It wasn't even a note.

We all contributed capital to the company.

Two hundred and five million today.

always wanted to build a company that would impact the lives of millions of people for the better.

From day one, that was our ambition.

Now, we knew it would take a lot to get there.

We knew it would be a capital-intensive business.

We're building an investing business that requires a lot of trust.

It requires a lot of scale.

It requires a lot of really smart engineers and investing experts and just great

PhDs and CFPs and all these types who are expensive.

And so we knew it was going to be a capital-intensive business, and we'd have to raise money to do it from day one.

We've grown and been successful beyond, I think, even those initial ambitions.

And today we have 220 people.