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So those are great questions. So, originally, my father died when I was very young at seven, and my family needed to make money, so I had to go to work early at 14. So I worked in a very entrepreneurial restaurant, meaning that in the restaurant there are a lot of ways that you could do extra chores during your time where you make money. I learned the value of maximizing the revenue that I could make in the time that I was working. So in doing that, I tried different businesses until I finally found a business that I could make money in, and I can control my own destiny, which I did with ticketing, and then, later on, I moved into software, and the beauty of software was it was scalable. So I got into a business that was very scalable. It could accelerate very quickly. This is going back and into 2000 when the Internet or the World Wide Web really became prominent. But at that point in time, and then I just rode the wave up.
So, if we really go back to 2000, our products were that we created a client-server software, at the same time in 2000 there were competitors in the marketplace who had software as a service model, where everything would be housed on the Internet, unfortunately for them, unfortunately for me, the business community really didn't trust, sort of a cloud environment where all your data was and it took a long time. At least 14 years or so in my business for that to actually be an accepted practice. So we started with, a client-server product where businesses could house their products and we reacted very quickly to the switch to software as a service that helped us sustain a little bit of our technological advance.
That's a great When we first started, it wasn't a few weeks. It was a few years before we hit probability. Some of the challenges that we faced and probably the biggest challenge was Human Resource, finding the right folks who could develop software, who knew what they were doing, who had integrity and that we're really willing during those days to work, 60-50 hour weeks, work on weekends and get back to folks. And that was that was a real challenge back that after we found those spokes and once we started making sales and it was scalable that it was how quickly could be scale up so it wasn't done. Then we had the scale up as quickly as possible, which meant we had to invest a lot in infrastructure at the same time. We're making money as well, so that was a good place to be. But it took a number of years to get there.