Sramana Mitra: Where was Karl based? Ben Dilts: He’s based here in Utah. As I mentioned, he moved here with his family. He was living here. He had left Google at that time and was looking around and seeing what he wanted to get involved with locally. He had spent most of his time at
Sramana Mitra: How did the community decide who was going to be in versus not? Ludovic Huraux: Because you have thousands of people who decide, it’s difficult to tell you exactly. Most of the time, they want to make sure that the profile is fully completed. It’s a proof of commitment. The picture is important
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Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a few use cases that give us a flavor of this, that, and other kind of integration going on in your large clients. Then we can even do one from your smaller downmarket clients. Chris McNabb: The first use case is one that I’ve already given. If somebody were to buy
Sramana Mitra: We’re now in mid-2009? Ben Dilts: That’s right. At this point, it was still very much a one-man show. I may have collected a grand total of a few hundred dollars in revenue from some users. It was a product but it was in no way a company at that point. When I
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Ludovic Huraux: Because the concept was very different, we had a lot of journalists who wrote about how attractive we are. There were a lot of bloggers who covered us. We got traction very quickly in France. A lot of our users organized events. I raised money. The first round was €500,000 with private investors. Then