Phil Reynolds

Devstride is all about orchestrating complex portfolios in agile teams doing really complicated work and

those enterprise customers need enterprise features.

And it's just really difficult to build that with two or three people bootstrapped in a garage somewhere.

You need real professionals with real resources, real access to customers.

And so it was just unlocking all of that made a huge difference.

Yeah.

So when Brightcore raised that money, it was one of those, hey, we see winter coming and we know that it's going to be a while.

So let's go ahead and capitalize now and make everything stabilize the company so we can weather this storm.

And all the indicators I'm sure everyone else has talked about on your show.

We were seeing those same things.

Yeah.

And that was the one that was at the 180 post, right?

That was actually the series C round, which is different.

The 180 post was a series B round.

And that was only 18 months after a 60 million valuation or series A. So we tripled our valuation in an 18 month window there.

Yeah.

So I left between B and C. I wasn't at the helm right at the tail end there.

So C closed a couple of months after I exited the company.

It was my cousin.

It was my cousin Chris Reynolds.