Stephen Gates

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So we launched in 2017.

I think officially we incorporated in April 2017.

So that's right after that whole hackathon stuff.

Um, and then since then we actually had three co-founders.

Uh, we did the whole summer thing, right?

Like get a, get a house together.

The three startup bros do the whole, the whole shtick.

Uh, by the end of the summer, it turns out we only, uh, we had to get rid of one co-founder.

Yeah, exactly.

Two founders survived.

Um, and that was, that was one good learning, by the way, it took longer than you would expect to like actually make that clean break.

it took way longer than you would expect why steven why did it take longer after that uh during that time um the fond relationship wasn't like a super clean break right on the relationship side it got a little bit um you know a bit ugly and then just because back then we're really bootstrapping i mean even though it's like 35 000 like nothing though is that is that what you guys had raised from grants and stuff 35 grand

Oh, yeah.

Thirty five grand total.

So that's what that's what carried us to to last week.

And last week was when we closed the fifty thousand kind of like bridge round.

Which one?

The thirty five?