Paul Lappas

And it wasn't

what we were selling.

But my co-founder, Lars, that had joined Intermix at the same time as me, that's where we met, approached me one day and said, hey, can we put this data into a place where we could sell it?

I have a few companies that would be interested in buying it.

Some private equity firms, other consultancies that were just interested in this industry data that was really hard to get

And so I said, sure, you know, how hard could that possibly be?

And I hired a data scientist to help me to do that.

And almost immediately when that person joined, they were like, okay, great.

Where's the data?

I was like, well, it's here.

It's in all these databases.

Just go out and find it.

And he's like, no, I need to have it all in one place.

It needs to be clean and complete and correct.

And I need to be able to run my tools on it, my specialized data science tools.

And I said, okay, interesting.

And then I spent three months doing that and getting the data to a place where it was useful.

And

Really, at the time, I, talking to other peers in the industry, realized that a lot of companies were having the same challenge in making data scientists successful.

And so, you know, decided to leave that company, and Lars and I joined up to start Intermix shortly after that.