Shaan Puri
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And now you're in charge.
And you've got peak energy.
And I'm talking to you, and we both are like, dude, we've had so many ideas of how we could turn this business from X to Y. This is going to be great.
And then what happens?
So you lose a third of your traffic on your brilliant name change.
Okay, next.
Okay.
And you guys were pretty loud about the acquisition, which also invites competition, right?
I tried telling you this, but like, you know, everybody wanted to pound their chest.
Natural, honestly.
Like, and I get it.
There's actually an upside to it too, right?
I think the month we announced that, to be fair, the two months after we announced the acquisition, it was actually peak growth because like a lot of people went and checked it out and realized like, wow, there's a reason why all these people use this service.
There's a reason why there's a high repeat rate of this service is probably pretty good.
So it did initially cause a burst, but it also created, you know, it emboldened the existing competitors to go harder and it created, you know, 10 new competitors.
Yep.
Right.
And our customer base was not super well-funded AI companies or something like that where we're
you know, spending was, they're just spending, you know, sloshing money around.
Like we help real businesses.