Konstantin Bayondin

I was alone for the first year in 2020, and I was able to get to the first six customers and 35 MRR.

35,000 MRR and I started to raise money to hire the team.

I got my co-founder, Dmitry, who first was the angel investor and then converted as a co-founder.

Fast things forward, we are now four times larger than the company was when it was alone.

22 a month in December last year.

So wait, so December 21, 80 plus and December 2020, 22.

And I started the business in 2020.

Yeah.

Yeah.

By February, March, and I started to hire people February, March.

I started to hire people in 2021 in February, March.

Got it.

So I started in April 2020, was running it alone.

By December 2020, I had $22,000 a month.

I still run it alone and I started to hire people in February, March last year, 2021.

And by that time I had a 35K run rate per month.

So we raised $1 million in pre-seed a year ago, closing in April.

So it was a plain six mil post money save.

So we could raise less because our revenue grew really well and we still didn't spend even half of the money.

But I believe you should raise more than you need all the time in order not to be in a position when you strive for new funding.