Sramana Mitra: What year is this happening? Anthony Minessale: 2002. Sramana Mitra: What was the competitive landscape like? Were RingCentral and Grasshopper around? Anthony Minessale: It was right before that. We were alone in the wild when we were doing this.
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Anthony is building a very interesting programmable communication platform company that has its roots in Wisconsin. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?