Matt Weirich

And so I kind of sat on the idea for a minute and couldn't get out of my mind and couldn't get out of my mind because as a consultant on the road every week for three years straight,

I saw that pain point iterated time and time again of not physically being able to be at the property to tour it or physically being there, but cramming it all into a weekend and exhausting yourself over a weekend trying to tour properties.

And so it was a pain point I saw reiterated time and time again at Accenture.

And so finally, I was at a work event and one of my then colleagues, my now co-founder, Ani, him and I were

talking about what's next, what's life after consulting look like.

And he was a part of a startup at Northwestern when he was in college and wanted to do something entrepreneurial.

So I pulled the idea out of my back pocket, pitched him on it.

And the very next weekend we were in my apartment, whiteboarding, laying the foundation.

What year did you guys launch that?

So that was 2013 when we first started scoping and speccing out and running focus groups and all of that.

And we brought on a

chief technology officer along with us because neither of us had extensive background.

Did you have to give them equity or did you just pay them a lot of money?

No, equity.

Yep.

There's really like three of you guys that own the majority of the business.

Exactly.

And then we, so we started Speckinit in 2013 and then we launched our MVP in 2014.

2014.

Okay.