Tyler Denk

You were on this list as well.

Right.

Exactly.

So like to me, to your point of like being exposed and naked, like, yes, but that's kind of like where I think I thrive.

Like I want the accountability and I want the pressure on that no matter what happens at the end of the month, I'm going to send an investor update to 500 people who trusted me with their money or passed.

And I don't want them to get the gratification that they were right in passing.

And I know that we are going to be exposed and share our revenue numbers.

And I want those numbers to be up into the right and green.

And so there's like a inspirational, like motivational tactic behind it.

There's also like a very tactful, like a lot, time is your biggest resource, especially as a founder, when you're being pulled in a million different directions.

And like we went down the venture backed route.

And so as you're building in public and sharing your milestones, there's always investors who are reaching out on Twitter.

Hey, you want to grab coffee for 30 minutes?

Hey, you want to do this?

And like my time's too valuable to have these coffee meets, but I do need to nurture those relationships in some capacity if I do want to raise a later round.

And so the investor update to me became the greatest life hack of saying like, no, I'm not going to spend 30 minutes meeting for coffee, but I'll add you to our investor update.

And you will learn far more about me and the business and how I think about this and how we're growing month over month by reading three to four months of our investor updates than you would ever get in like a 30-minute coffee meet.

And so by using these investor updates, we actually raised our Series A in one week.

It's $12.5 million in a week.

I don't know with AI companies, maybe that's not as impressive, but it was amazing for us.