When I started making it, I did not realize it was going to be the beast that it is.

It's like I didn't realize how much effort a tech startup takes.

I kind of just was a bit naive and thought I'd put it on the stores and do some marketing and all would be well.

That's not true.

I've learned a lot of lessons this year.

I mean, our ultimate goal was always like a LinkedIn for golf,

connecting people through mutual connections and business connections and community connections.

And you kind of just have to see what people like and what they go for and what they don't.

My name is Lydia Davies, founder and CEO of Teammates Golf.

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Lydia Davies is from the UK originally, but she has lived all over the world.

She was actually born in Thailand and lived in Southeast Asia, Singapore,

Alaska, the Middle East, and now is in Houston, Texas. She's always been into sports, playing,

supporting, et cetera. When she was 16 years old, she signed on to a music label as a singer and a pianist,

traveling around the world to perform. When she left the music industry, she got really into tech.

As she opened her performing arts academy, she ended up building her own website, an app for the business.

During COVID in 2020, she started creating a framework for a golf app for her and her husband to find people to play golf with.

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