We were building and growing quite well during the accelerator.

At the same time as we were sort of going towards a demo day for the accelerator,

we were approached by Alpineworks.

So during Dreamforce, I had a beer with Alpineworks founder,

or one of the founders, Ben,

and we were talking about our different strategies and goals for our companies,

and we realized that we were essentially trying to achieve the same thing.

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