In the early days, scalability was sort of barely on our minds.

The goalpost was how do we make it scalable enough for the next 30 days?

This is sort of how we looked at things.

And even things like the architecture of the product or tests or maintainability.

We definitely had accepted that we were willing to push some of that out as future technical

debt in the interest of just shipping the product a little bit faster.

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Growing up in the Bay Area, George Deglin has always been in the middle of the Silicon Valley action.

Having both parents being engineers, he was influenced to study computer science at Berkeley.

During that time, he co-founded a startup in the education space, and after building

this company up, he parted ways to start his next venture. This next venture led to the discovery

of the vision for one signal, the most widely used push notification and marketing platform,

sending over 5 billion messages a day.

The company's had a very interesting history, and it's actually been around for quite a while

in a few different versions, I guess. After I had left my first startup, and I was looking

to do something new, I met my co-founder

that had previously started a company himself in the consumer space. And we hit it off really

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