I'm Mike Petrake, is founder and CEO of Batch.

We are building the world's greatest party marketplace.

Now, we started as an app to plan a Bachelorette party where you could invite your friends,

chat and figure out what you want to do, put an itinerary together and split up expenses.

We launched our app in 2020 as background. Great time to launch a

travel product. We got our first 100,000 users in about three months, so we knew we had something

special. And then when COVID happened, it led us to build a marketplace for bookable experiences.

Now, between COVID and now, I can get into a lot of detail,

but I will just say, since over the past five years,

since we've launched batch, we've expanded from just this

planning out for Bachelorette parties to now an app

that serves all parties in all group trips,

birthday parties, bachelor parties, girls trips, guys trips.

We see divorce parties on the platform.

And what's most exciting and relevant to today is we've also expanded into

not only experiences across 75 markets, but we're opening up accommodations

like short-term rentals for groups specifically, as well as restaurant recommendations in bars

on the platform as well with the goal of being your one-stop shop, you know, for a group

trip to get to do everything that you'd want to do on a trip in one place. Nice. Well, I would say that normally we have a worldwide audience, but looking from the chat, we've got Austin, we've got Missouri, we've got New York City, we've got Denver, Kansas. So I assume, and North Carolina, sorry, Delilah. I assume that Batch is just a U.S.

thing. Am I right or am I wrong? We've recently expanded. So we're in Cabo, Cancun,

you know, a number of different places in Mexico and the Caribbean. So we're super excited for

you know, North America and a little bit of international expansion as of this year.

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