you know, it's I come from a family of entrepreneurs. My father had a publishing business he created, which meant as 1/5 grader, I was index in my comic books on his idea of punchcard machines. Andi, I always loved this idea that you could create something from nothing. I mean, the company is really a figment of all of our collective imagination. In many ways, that's what it is. I, um, and I always loved also the idea that you could take technology and make it do something truly magical and taking a cryptic, ancient Greek like language and make it sing to a technology computer. Our phones that we hold in our hands or even the technology doing this broadcast right now, um, I actually didn't decide to go straight into entrepreneurship. I went into the corporate world. I spent about 25 years in the Corporate World C suite. I was one of the youngest managing directors and cities option text team. I was the global scale from MetLife and I was doing entrepreneurship. It was what I thought was creating within a company, the startup culture. You need to drive Fortune 50 companies with hundreds of thousands of employees. But from that perspective, you get to a point where you suddenly realize that, you know, why am I waiting for someone else to fix the problems that I say and who knows better than than the problems than actually experiencing it yourselves and having the ability to change it? And that's when I left and created on Cork in 2017.

um, I'm going to say the biggest thing you could ever say is we intend to be the only technology left in every company. So our goal is to be a big for tech company. We believe cloud computing is nothing but infrastructure and plumbing, and it's really about the solutions that run on top of that cloud infrastructure and plumbing that makes sense On DSO. We created a solution that allows anyone to be able to create software with all the enterprise scalability, security, reliability performance that you would expect from the largest corporations that have 50,000 technologists and to be able to do it without ever needing an engineering degree or background. So we created its offer, which allows you to drag and drop and visually without any code generation ever created Trading system. A derivative system. It could be a website for a charity. It could be a donation side. It could be a food delivery site, and we're basically changing the way software is created entirely, so you don't need to write that ancient Greek I mentioned before you could actually think about a solution holistically as to how it you look and feel can function without ever thinking again about all the complexities that really comprised what we call legacy today and every line of code being written today. His legacy. The second strain, even if it's in the latest languages, and so we created a solution that will no longer requires coding.

really? I thought, Hey, the startup world. I've seen it from the outside in, and now it's inside out from that perspective. And, um, I actually did the pitch to pretty much everyone on the mightiest list that you would think of top investors. And we did a pitch of a vision of where we're going to get to where we're gonna be on do No one Got it. The feedback waas I was too old personally. And by the way, the feedback too old was constructive criticism, Meaning, Actually, it can't be constructive because you can't change your age and by definition, constructive. You could do something about. And so we were told it was the wrong idea. It's hard. Go to market will take you years to get an introduction and came back basically with my my cto two of us said, like we're gonna get through it. We're going to sell, Let's self funded and basically let's drive it forward. And within six months, we had five of the largest fortune to 50 clients using our solution, and from that point forward, we proved product market fit. We proved that we could actually run the company and we created the technology ourselves. So I got to go back to the days of a hacker and basically go back and basically see what it was like to write code again if you drive things. Because my last job at Met life it was a Fortune 50 company. I was managing 10,000. Resource is 10,000 developers in 47 countries. So the hands on coding with something that was not familiar to me anymore. But I still had it in me all the way back from the fifth grade, which was amazing.