Trip Adler
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I think that adds up to 50, but I got my math wrong.
So it's about 50 to date.
And at this point, we're profitable.
So we're just living off profits, which is a good spot to be.
We're not really intending to raise any more money for the time being.
So for us, it's two things.
It's headcount and it's content.
So we don't actually pay for users.
We started the service as just a free service for publishing and sharing content, and it today reaches over 100 million monthly users.
So we basically just market our subscription service to those 100 million users.
We don't have to actually pay for marketing.
We pay for a little bit, but just a small amount.
Um, so, uh, so our two costs are really just hiring good people, hiring good, uh, um, engineers and designers and, um, all types of, uh, people that build, built the product.
And then also on the, uh, on the content side, we, we go to, we do deals with, uh, book publishers, with magazine publishers, the newspapers, and we make all that content available through the subscription model.
Okay.
All, all there in Palo Alto.
Especially in San Francisco now.
I'm from Palo Alto, but live in San Francisco.
You can see the view behind me.
I was about to say, yeah.