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Hey, before we start the show, I just want to remind you that tickets for the How I Built The Summit are selling fast. We now have fewer than 50 tickets left, so don't miss your chance to learn from some of the world's most inspiring entrepreneurs and also to meet hundreds of other innovators and builders. The summit is on October 16th in San Francisco. and it's supported by American Express. Go to npr.org slash summit to find out more and to get your tickets. And I hope to see you there. We were sure that this was gonna be something as big.

But um we went back to our investors, so including Andreessen Horowitz. And we went in there and told them our plan and you know We could one day get to a hundred million dollars in revenue with this business and thereby be a billion dollar business. And like they were just like, You guys have no idea what you're doing. You don't understand what it is to sell into companies. Um, you're gonna need all of this expertise. And they were they were like

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