Ryan Petersen

I started following, trying to learn about SaaS.

I wish we knew more.

The blogging, the podcast world, you can learn so much more about AI, whatever.

You can learn so much more now than you could back 15 years ago about how to run a SaaS business.

Um, but that got that, that's what really got us into the tech scene.

We were still outsiders for sure.

Uh, and then both my brother and I both started new companies.

At some point that, that business, great business, but it's kind of like hit, it's keeps growing actually, but it was, it, it was stopped being a rocket show.

We had like a few years of like runaway growth and then it kind of reached its place in the ecosystem.

And it's been like a steady compounder for the last decade, but not.

Wasn't enough for me to like stay engaged as I should have been.

And I came back to this idea of like, should be an online platform to help you with your logistics, especially your customs clearances.

Coming back to our motorcycle days of like, man, it's way too important to be this hard and this lack of tech.

My brother had gone in a different direction, which was his is like, what other public data sets are out there that we could build valuable data sets and sell subscriptions or provide access to?

And so he started a company called BuildZoom in constructing construction data.

So you're building permits or public record in most places and building like rich profiles of contractors or you can look up any building and see who remodeled it, et cetera.

So it's kind of like both similar origin starting points, but very different businesses, obviously.

And so he did Y Combinator for that.

And that was 2012?

He would have been 2013.