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That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. What was that, 2009, 2010? I think it was 2009 and 10. I'm really curious, for now and when founders encounter Lean Startup, it's a famous old idea for most folks. We had to raise some seed capital. EB : Yeah.