Sam Knight

Well, my name's Sam Knight.

You can call me Sam Bolt.

Sorry, Sam Knight.

You're good, you're good.

So Bolt Software, we're a construction software, but we're super niche.

We do scheduling, it's how we get our foot in the door, but we also do project management and estimating.

for the residential home building market, specifically those trades that are in that industry, the electricians, plumbers, masonry companies, so on and so forth.

No, construction background first.

I painted houses to kind of pay my way through three unsuccessful semesters at Texas A&M.

And then met my co-founder, who has a background in the construction business as well, and just kind of

entrepreneur and a company out of it so what year was that uh we started um january of 2016 is when we officially started okay and so you were painting before that 2016 you and define officially started like that was the first line of code or your first sale or what no that's when we started selling what we thought was the minimum viable product which was we quickly found out was not but that's when we officially started selling and marketing our product out to when did you write the first line of code um 2012 was when it first started being written

We weren't.

It was just an internal product that my co-founder Josh was using at his dad's company.

They have a background in construction.

And so they took about four or five years to start building up kind of a proof of concept at their business before we actually then spun it off.

We started getting some interest as a short answer around the industry in it.

And so that's when we spun it off into a separate product and something that we could turn into a business.

Um, good question.

I don't really know.

It was just kind of a, I mean, once you're in the software business, you're in the software business, even if it's just internal.