Mike Beck
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I joined them at the later stage and I was given a task to help grow Alacrity.
a software within the family history space.
And, you know, it was B2C.
And I thought I'll take on the challenge.
We had a fantastic board of directors, a really great network.
And we set out building a platform that essentially helps people to record their life stories and preserve them for future generations to learn and develop from.
So we launched, well, we launched reworking back in October 2020.
Last year.
Yeah, absolutely.
During the pandemic, we realized that actually a B2C product wasn't working for us.
We didn't have the cash flow.
We didn't have the, you know, huge user base.
We had about a thousand users on the platform.
So we decided, this is it.
We had probably about 10 people paying.
We were not in a good position.
We had about six, seven months.
Yeah, a bit more than that, actually.
So, you know, it was a difficult time for us.
But then I decided what it realized with our network.