Ross Andrews

One is in Ohio and one is in Florida.

We are a distributed team at the moment.

So the co-founder who was in Florida, he and I met through my stepfather who run, he also runs his own business.

So that's how kind of he and I met.

And then the other two, one I met through just another professional connection I had.

He's our chief data scientist.

So he does all of our AI programming.

And then the other one, I met her at a, just a networking event.

And I was just really impressed by her resume and her background.

So I,

approached her about her interest in joining our team and uh we kind of just evolved organically from there and ross are i assume you're like the business guy right oops sorry you broke up there on the last one no problem i said i'm assuming you're kind of the business guy right yeah i'm the you know sales marketing business ops guy and it was your idea

Yes, Proximate started, I started off the concept.

Yeah, you know, I think the key for them was when they met me,

was hearing me talk about Proxmox and how passionate I was about the idea and how, you know, from my own experiences, I really believe that this platform could make a difference in sales peoples and sales organizations lives in the future.

And I think for a lot of them, they said, listen, for the three of them, they said, listen, you seem so passionate about this and you've done the homework, you've done the research, you know, I share with them all of the information that I've sourced to kind of, as I was putting the idea together,

And I think that was just really what helped convince them.

You know, for Thomas Bowles, who's my co-founder, he was he is the Salesforce administrator for a for a B2B company.

So he has a little bit more firsthand experience of kind of some of the shortcomings in the today's CRM sales cloud environment.

And he's seen it firsthand.

So he kind of was a little faster to relate to.