Matt Ristel
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Oh, he was the engineer.
Yes.
240, I think.
Yeah, well, we have an office, a small office in Australia.
We have a couple in California and a few just spread out across the United States.
But this is definitely headquarters.
So we officially went, you know, incorporated in 2006.
Official launch date, I sold my last company and then we really launched hard in 2008.
Had fun.
three miserable go-to-market failures.
Miserable.
We ran out of money completely.
T-sheets.
Yeah, we ran out of money, had to move into free space.
Well, part of it's kind of interesting, as you know, from a founder perspective.
I mean, I put in a few hundred thousand dollars.
We got a couple of hundred thousand dollars of some seed capital.
Uh, but then, so once you burn through that, you really don't pay yourself for a while.
Right.
And so, uh, you start burning through all your own cash reserves.