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Without further ado, let's welcome to Ping and Ashman.

Thanks, Professor Byers. So it's always good to be back on the farm, so thanks for having

Asher and I here. It's always good to see young students wanting to get an entrepreneurship and figure out the next great companies.

So I'm just going to ask Ashton a couple questions for 10, 20 minutes, but in the meantime, feel free to jump in and at the end we'll have some Q&A as well.

So I want to keep this as interactive as possible since you guys are all bit torn users.

You probably have a lot of customer complaints or whatever that Ashwin can deal with personally.

Now you can know who to call.

Yeah, I'm going to give you a ping's email address to the first line of defense.

Right. So just Ashton, I'd love to hear a little bit about BitTorne kind of pre-ashwin. So BitTorne's been around for several years now, more than five years now, and I'd love

to hear about how you saw before you got involved.

What was your co-founder Bram's vision and how you got it going and how it got to, to

the point it got to before you joined?

Yeah, sure.

So Bram is an engineer that was a guy who dropped out of college.

He went to SUNY Buffalo and was really intent on getting into the computer science field.

So he came out here in the dot-com go-go days,

I think it was in the late 90s, and spent a couple of years

working at a bunch of different dot-coms.

It was laid off in 2001 and got really interested

in this idea that websites were increasingly wanting to deliver large amounts of data

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