Stephen Stuut
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That makes a lot of sense.
And then tell me more kind of about team here.
So you came in, again, in 2015.
What was the team size then, and what is it now?
The team size was probably around 90, 95 in the West and is now about 110, 115 in the West and about 500 in India and now 1,000 in India.
So total, call it about 1,500?
Correct.
Yeah.
And what is the going into kind of user acquisition, right?
So I'm curious, the India team, is this kind of a software product that is then verified by a human that you pay very little in India to kind of make sure it all checks out?
Like, why is that?
What's that big team in India doing?
Well, interestingly, what this is, is this is a hybrid blend of computer vision, facial recognition and industry experts in a single integrated system.
This is not a did the automatic thing not figure it out, throw it to the humans.
It's actually an integrated process.
So a lot of the automation may be to assist an expert.
Interestingly, which you didn't go over my background, I start off my life, which is incidental to why I was hired.
I'm an optical engineer by training, designed laser weapons.
So I know a lot about optics and a computer vision system can do a lot, but it really has a lot of trouble if the image isn't perfect.
And let's face it, if I said you can take a picture wherever, people take crappy pictures at Starbucks in bad lighting with a laptop that has a fixed focus camera.