Patrick Campbell

I'm just letting you know, we love you, but we have to rib you a little bit because I love, I love you guys more.

Yeah.

So we had this $50... I had this $50 a month pricing software product.

Yeah.

Great price for a pricing software product.

And we ended up having this guy named Scott Kirsner, who's a Boston Globe columnist.

He basically wrote this article.

I didn't beg him, but I was definitely like...

oh, it'd be really great if Scott Kirshner wrote an article on us.

And so I had some inbound and we had Compete, Compete.com, which some old school folks listening might remember, SmartBear and Hallmark and Adidas.

These four companies contacted us off the article.

Oh, and I think RunKeeper at the time as well.

And basically...

Three of them were like, yeah, cool software product.

Can you just do the thing for us?

Can you just give us the data at the end rather than us doing all the stuff with the software?

And at first I was like, oh, VCDs don't like services.

Oh no, I can't do this.

Because I was still thinking like, oh, we'll go raise money at some point.

And then they basically were like, we will pay you a lot of money.