Ted Elliott

I'm like, yeah, well, I said, I need to be in charge.

You guys can fire me anytime the two of you can agree.

I go, if one of you agrees with insight, you can fire me.

If you two agree, you can fire me.

But if the three of you can't agree, then I'm in charge.

Um, and, and I said, great, come on board.

And so we, we started off and my whole plan was to hire as many people as quickly as possible and spend that seven half million dollars as quickly as possible to show that we could scale.

Um, and I think when I walked in the door, we had four and a quarter, uh, in ARR, um, and

you know, we took it from four and a quarter to 15 million in the first year.

Um, we went from 30 people in Spain to about a hundred people, um, uh, in the U S in Spain.

Um, I got diagnosed with stage three rectal cancer, my third month on the job and was told that I was going to die.

Um, and, um, I was like, well, do I want to keep doing this or do I want to just focus on not being here?

And I was like, no, I'm going to go for it.

Go big.

Right.

Have you beat it?

Yeah, I beat it.

I did 12 rounds of chemo and radiation and four surgeries.

And I just had a follow-up surgery last week that was not related to the cancer, but I had a hernia as a result of them poking a hole in my abdomen for a colostomy bag that I had to wear for four months.

And I can tell you, I have probably, well, I shouldn't go there.