Initially, actually, my idea was, you know, startups are hard.

I don't know if I want to really do a startup on this.

I wonder, I wonder can I get someone at Amazon or Google or Microsoft to sort of like,

you know, pony up the cash to do this at one of the big clouds?

And those conversations went okay, but it didn't seem like they were going anywhere interesting.

So instead, I'm like, all right, you know, I'm going to raise money for this.

And so I spent some time, you know, started raising money.

So eventually raised like $3.5 million to do this.

And in this time, all I had was 800 lines of Python and 1,000 lines of L.

That was the entire product.

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Paul Bigger was born in Dublin, Ireland, living there most of his life.

When he was young, his dad had a couple of computers where Paul could program

in Basic and Logo. In addition to these early introductions, he was into building his own

machines and tweaking their hardware settings to get the most optimal performance out of them.

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