Noah Laphart

It tells investors, customers, and anyone who looks at your website, really, that tech is at the core of your build.

And I've kicked myself plenty since, especially when I see the clean and sharp names tech companies have landed on .tech.

Nothing.tech, 1x.tech, Aurora.tech, CES.tech, Ultra.tech, Alice.tech, Neon.tech, Blaze.tech, Pi.tech.

You get the idea.

So take it from someone who learned it the hard way.

If you're building a tech startup, don't overthink it.

Get a .tech domain.

Let's go from that point then.

So I'm curious about how you progressed and matured the version of Q, that really where Q came alive.

I'm curious about that progression maturation process.

And to wrap in a box a little bit, what I'm looking for is how do you build your roadmap?

How do you go about deciding that, okay, this is the next most important thing to build or to address?

So I'm curious about team.

How did you go about building your team and what did you look for in those people to indicate that they were the winning horses to join you?

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