Matteo Franceschetti
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technology that require a million of dollars to be developed than some of the best machine learning engineers in the world.
No, actually, no, it was different because it was really Max and I to start the company at the beginning.
And then we brought in other two co-founders.
And so we started 50-50, Max and I, but then we gave a piece of equity to the other two co-founders.
Then the fourth co-founder, it didn't work out with him after a couple of years.
So he has been still very effective for a couple of years with us.
But then he left.
and that freed up some equity for the third co-founder.
No.
And the units, then it kept coming even after.
So we saw something like 8,000 units in pre-orders.
It was massive.
Bigger than probably what we could handle at the time.
But yeah, it was incredible.
I still remember that night when we got the first order, we were still testing and we see an order coming in.
from a person with a French name.
And so we started asking, but it was you testing with this name?
And the other said, no, it was not me.
It was not me.
And it was the first customer.