Nick Girard

And it can be crushing because you fail very quickly.

But we designed it so that like, I did a bunch of cold outreach.

hit up everyone who I could, who, you know, could make an introduction or whatever, teed up as many interviews as I could and saved the best for last and tried to generate, you know, we at the same time were taking off the wraps off of our products.

We were able to generate a lot of buzz around all the things that we were doing.

And obviously that caught people's eye at the same time and that helped.

And so by the time we got to, you know, the third and fourth week, we had a couple of solid candidates.

We had term sheets going into the end of May, beginning of June.

And then a couple weeks later, we had the round locked down, had a couple other people falling on board, and we wound up closing it just after July 4th.

Yeah.

So they allowed us to go full time.

We raised, honestly, we raised like half a million dollars.

I see.

And that was basically just so that Sam, Steve, and I could go full time.

And that was really, I mean, I have nothing but amazing things to say about them.

They made some of those intros as well.

Yes.

No, it was not.

That was actually from, I actually don't know who made that introduction.

I could look it up and get back to you on that.

But, you know, it's learning, especially as an engineer coming from the... My natural kind of tendency is toward being very literal-minded.