Puroon Shahada

Hello, everybody.

Yeah, I'm going to actually walk you through, you know, what I would say probably the most unusual story here.

We are all about bootstrapping.

And I saw how many hands went up.

I'm going to walk you through going from bootstrapping to really getting to, you know, exits along the way, multiple bites of the apple, if you will.

and still actually sort of maintaining, you know, the chance to make the dent that you're after.

So Puroon Chara, Puroon rhymes with maroon.

You'll remember my name now.

We are in the board meeting business, a board meeting management business.

Over the next 20 minutes, I'm going to actually walk you through

You know, how we got started, you know, first product, really good success with that.

And then, you know, went on to really kind of just monetize that through, you know, first actually really took on debt to continue to bootstrap till we got to $15 million in ARR.

Along the way, I had to clean up the cap table.

There were some non-performing, you know, co-founders, if you will, that had to be, you know, managed.

And that took a while, but at that point I was able to take on some private equity money to accelerate the growth.

And that proved the growth model.

And then last year we took a bigger check from a second private equity transaction.

Since then, we've actually gone on to do inorganic transactions and acquisitions.

It's a big focus as well.

So I'm going to walk you through this.