Mikael Tunneberg
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Well in ARR we are now at 27 million euros and in turnover I think we'll get to 24 million maybe.
Well, our numbers have been pretty awesome lately, as you know, and there was a lot of inbound interest from VCs, top names from all over the world.
So I just figured it's probably a good time to raise some money.
Um, so that's, that was the kind of reason why I started thinking about that.
And, and to be honest, part of that was secondary.
So I also sold some shares.
So it's, it's a company.
Oh, we can't reveal that.
So that is when I sell my shares.
So the money doesn't go to the company, but it goes to me.
So it was me and some early employees selling a small part of their stakes.
Of course, we still have a major stake in the company.
It was a simple Excel add-on to fetch Google Analytics data into Excel to automate that data fetching, which many people were doing manually back then.
So with MyScript, you could get that data automatically into Excel.
I did that in 2014.
I had a pretty okay business with the Excel product back then.
And then Google reached out to me because I had some relationships with them already because Google Analytics was a data source for me.
So some people from Google reached out and they said that they are planning to launch this Google Sheets add-on gallery and asked if I would want to be one of the first add-ons.
to be featured in that gallery.
And guess what?