Mathilde Collin
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And so that's how I started to think about building my own company.
Very naive, but it's true.
One million.
Correct.
Right.
Twelve hundred and ten companies.
On average, 200 and something.
Yeah, but it's very wide.
So we have companies of two users, and then we have companies as big as Cisco using the product.
And so teams of hundreds of people.
Correct.
So we started in France, then we received some funding from Y Combinator because we went to YC in summer 14.
And then after YC, we raised our seed 3 millions.
And then two months ago, we raised our Series A 10 millions.
So first of all, email is a very complicated protocol.
And I think if you want to do a product where you can actually receive emails and send emails and millions of them, then you'll have to invest a lot of resources in engineering.
And so I think for us.
Since the beginning, we knew that it was really hard to bootstrap that idea.
Also, I had no money when I started the company.
I had to make a loan to study in France.