Ted Elliott
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And I'm like, I think it's going to be really big too.
And I think you guys are crazy.
And they're like, well, yeah.
They said, instead of taking the money, we're going to take a round of investment from Insight, Salesforce Ventures.
They're like, if you want to be in it, there are a couple other guys.
One was from DocuSign.
One was from Velocity.
So we all threw in invested in the business.
And at that point I had no plans on joining the company.
I was just going to be an active board member.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I was just gonna be an active board member and help them hire people in North America so they could go ahead and, and execute their North American plan.
And, um, and it sort of just evolved from there.
Uh, and, um,
you know, about two board meetings later, two founders said, you know, we're really struggling to get a foothold in North America.
We really need someone who can help us.
And I said, okay, guys, I'll only do this if I'm in charge.
All right.
This is our business.