Patrick Bosworth

Yeah, I don't think the company would exist without it.

Tell me why.

Well, so the company was started through a section mate of mine convincing me that there was an opportunity to build a tech business here.

And then he introduced me to one of my co-founders, Craig Weissman, who is the chief technology officer of Salesforce.com at the time and was looking to found his own business.

And then in the fundraising process, whether it's the just way the world should run or not, it definitely created a lot more credibility that I had an MBA from Harvard.

Another co-founder had an MBA basically from Cornell.

And my third co-founder also went to Harvard.

And

Those networks are very strong, and it helps you get meetings with venture capitalists.

And that's how we raised our first round.

Um, yeah, there are.

Um, I, I, I think that you do get other benefits other than just the network by, by going through, I did the two year program, so it wasn't a four or five year commitment.

Um, but, uh, so in particularly in my case where I was going from a non-traditional background, having, um,

worked in the arts as an actor and singer to then working in politics, it was really helpful for me to have a grounding in business terminology, the way businesses work, meet a lot of people that had worked in banking and consulting and other things that had a lot to teach me, aside from just the network.

There are abbreviated programs.

So there are things like the Executive Education Program, the Advanced Management Program,

and other short courses that you can take that give you access to the network.

So that's the primary interest.

Now, they tend to be expensive.

So it's like 60 or 70.