The following teaser is pulled from Revenue Report files, an audio archive of five years of Cubicle to CEO's quarterly revenue reports from 2020 through 2024. Each episode breaks down our company's profit and loss numbers, along with the context, decisions, and lessons from that quarter. Full episodes can be found at cubicle to CEO.co slash revenue report.

Hey friends, welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Ellen Yin, and today is another solo episode. I'm excited to take you behind the business with me as we review and recap the last 90 days in my

company. So when I think about these last 90 days, it's really been heavily defined by traveling.

Holy moly, I don't think I have traveled that much in years. Like the last time where I feel like

I was gone every other week was probably in

2019 or maybe 2018 even. But honestly, even then, I don't know if it was in such close proximity

to one another. So I feel like I would go on a trip and then be back for literally a handful of

days, sometimes not even a full week, and then be on the road

or on a plane again to my next destination. So I did a ton of traveling in the first quarter.

Half of the trips were for business. The other half was for personal things I had planned.

And I spoke actually at four different conferences. So the Renaissance Women's Summit in Nashville,

the Creative Educator Conference in Dallas at South by Southwest. It wasn't technically a

South by Southwest sanctioned event, but it was during South by that week in Austin. And one

of my companies in my angel portfolio, Cherub, they were hosting this pop-up shop.

And so I got to speak on one of the angel investing panels as well as record a live podcast for

Kupicle to CEO.

I got my business formally valued.

So I actually worked with a firm to formally evaluate my business formally valued. So I actually worked with a firm to formally

valuate my business. Valuate value? I don't know. I never know the correct term. But

anyways, it's an indicative valuation is what the actual report is called. This was a really

huge milestone for me because, you know, when I first started this business back in 2018, there was zero part of me that thought I would ever sell this business or that I would, you know, be building an asset that I could even sell.

And so I felt really proud going through this process and realizing I have created something that is worth money,

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