Shreya Murthy

And I don't think I could have started this company or any company by looking at the data or doing any kind of top down analysis.

It was fully from the heart of just what do I care about solving?

And at the early stages of building a company, you have nothing to lose, right?

You've built nothing.

And so if it doesn't go well, you've lost nothing.

And so I just kind of put it all out there.

I was like...

I want to solve this for myself.

And even if I just build a better way for me and my friends to hang out, I think I will have done something great for my own life.

And if that works and other people feel the same way, maybe we could actually do this for millions or even billions of other people.

And that was the hope.

I have an incredible technical co-founder named Joy.

She is the engineering brains behind the company and the brains behind so much more.

So I met Joy through a mutual friend in 2019, and I told her about what I wanted to build.

And I was very lucky that she got super excited by the idea because she also plans parties.

She plans very elaborate parties.

and felt so many of the same stresses and struggles around, you know, the logistics and figuring out who's going and making sure that you have enough food for everyone and managing the timing.

And so she, as an engineer, was really passionate about building a solution to this.

And so we spent a few months just mind melding about what kind of product we wanted to build, what kind of

company we wanted to build, what our goals were, what our values were.