Raj Bhaskar
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Definitely fair to say that.
And also fair to say using proceeds from that to fund hurdler.
We launched it a couple of years ago, but definitely started working on it four or five years ago.
Sure, so for anybody who's freelancing, if you're a self-employed business owner or an entrepreneur, it helps you simply track all of your business-related finances and taxes.
And so we built, we actually built a real-time income tax calculation engine for all 50 states in DC.
That was the real hard part.
So I can tell whether you're a designer, a developer, or even an Uber driver, like this second,
How much is your take-home pay or what I call your true profit, right?
Your true profit is your earnings minus your expenses minus your taxes, right?
Because you're in charge of your own taxes.
It's not taken out of your payroll.
So I can tell you what you get to keep in your pocket today.
So I think a good analogy for us is like a lot of our users have said we're like a mint, but for business.
Oh, interesting.
So I think that's, I like that analogy because I think that product is mostly focused on consumers and we do, we're more business focused, but for, you know,
A large population of consumers are entrepreneurs or freelancing.
And the main thing is part of our engine helps you take advantage of all the tax deductions that are available to you.
Most entrepreneurs leave thousands on the table every year.
Yeah, I think there's that part.
And then some of the systems out there just take a lot of time, right?