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Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. I have had a blog for 17 years. I’m always a bit annoyed by the rubbish that gets produced out there.

Rohan Gupta: I am too. As a company that started content marketing, we need to eat our own dog food and produce content in a very thoughtful way.

Sramana Mitra: It’s a funny industry. Recently, we started working with Udemy. We have thousands of hours of entrepreneurship curriculum. We started packaging these into Udemy courses. We’ve released 30 courses on Udemy.

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Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Quillbot.

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Sramana Mitra: Once you had the Series A, what was the next major inflection point? What strategic moves did you make to get to that?

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Sramana Mitra: How did you get your first customer?

Jeremy Swift: By scratching, clawing, begging, and pleading. We had a pretty great wealth of relationships.

Sramana Mitra: That was my question. Did you go back to those relationships? When you have domain experience, you also have relationships in a category. It’s easier to sell into a category when you have those relationships.

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