Ken Hoppe
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We don't have to lease office space.
So we looked at it.
We said, let's prove out a model.
Let's control that.
Let's control the company.
Keith's former company, he grew from himself to 120 million in revenue.
Wow.
With zero funding.
I think the opportunity is big enough to we'll eventually take some VC funding.
Yeah, the beauty is it's a very profitable business.
So we rolled in, we had co-founded another company prior, a company called First DFX, and we rolled some of the money in.
So we probably only put in about 100 grand total.
So we have four full-time, and we have, with the advent of Fiverr and Upwork, we have on, you know, because we're a Google Cloud and Salesforce and Python company,
it's really easy to add and subtract a contractor.
So at the peak, when we were doing full-blown GCP development, platform development in GCP, Google Cloud, and full-blown development in Salesforce, we had 10 full-time.
Oh, 10 developers.
Yeah, at the peak.
I see.
And then we rolled off people as we hit milestones on the product.
We have six that are full time.