Tom Gibby
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We were using our messenger business to fund our internal enterprise business.
We were doing a lot more service work.
As you can imagine, there were companies or ad agencies who would have budget to do some digital activation
Quite often, these would be like short-term campaigns as well, so it might only be like a three-month or a six-month campaign.
The way we work now with customers is, once we're a part of their tech stack, they don't leave.
Oh, no, I can't remember the exact numbers.
But I mean, a lot.
Yeah, it was a lot more heavily skewed to service revenue versus license.
It's probably closer to 100 grand than 500 grand back then.
Uh, pretty much all of it.
I mean, as I said, we, we haven't taken any, what was that?
Sorry.
No, no, no.
So there's myself and then I have a number of other co-founders as well.
So there's myself and there's three other co-founders.
Um, all of our employees have some equity as well.
Um, but yeah, we, we haven't, you know, given a huge portion of equity away to, to any investors.
No, no, we've given less than that.
There's been, at the moment, there's a load of like unassigned equity that we were going to use for future employees or if we did want to raise, but that's currently just set there as unassigned.
So in theory, that would be split between, you know, however we want to split that.