Shreya Murthy

And we got really lucky that all of those things aligned.

We did a bunch of those like co-founder quizzes where you each answer a bunch of questions and then you compare your answers to see if you're aligned.

And once we decided we were aligned, we're like, okay, let's just do this.

Yeah, that was that was terrible.

I'm not going to lie.

So we decided to start the company together in January of 2020.

And I was very naive.

It was my first time starting a company.

And I was just like, OK, well, I think the next thing you do is like you go and try to raise some venture funding.

So let me go try to do that.

Yes, I quit my job.

I was working at an AI startup that I quit in the beginning of 2019.

So I had been almost a year without a job, without any money.

So it was already like tough on a personal level.

So we went out to raise funding, went to the Bay Area.

It was a really tough fundraising process because nobody really wanted to fund two young women with a party startup.

It just sounded totally frivolous.

But we got very lucky and managed to raise a bit of pre-seed funding.

And then we were like, OK, we're ready to start the company.

It's the second week of March 2020, Monday morning.