Thomas Harding
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Um, so I mentioned there's a lot of new channels opening up to publish stories too.
So there's opportunities for us there.
Yeah.
So we're about 20 at the moment.
Nope.
So we're split.
We originally started in New Zealand.
So we've still got half our development team down there.
We've got some sales and customer success down there.
We've got a team of salespeople here in New York.
And then we have the rest of our development team based in Berlin.
Yeah, we've raised a few rounds of capital at this point.
So we raised early 2015, late 2017, and then just a couple of months back as well.
Yeah, I think the thing for us at that point was how quickly stories were starting to pick up speed.
So we did bootstrap for all of our first year, basically said, we don't want to take cash, we want to prove this out.
And then I think once we realized the way things were projecting and particularly Snapchat during that early phase, they were going up into the right.
And we knew that if we wanted to be at the front of this market, we needed to raise a bit of capital so we could build up some of that sales and marketing infrastructure ahead of where the market was at and be ready once it came right.
Um, I don't know off the top of my head, but, uh, it's been an interesting year for us.
I'll sort of, I'll put it that way.
Yeah.