But the next day we made a plan and our plan was to get paying customers and come back to YC and show them that we've got some customers.

And that's exactly what we did.

Spent all the day on Saturday just programming.

Suddenly we just had customers coming in.

That was crazy.

And on Monday at 9 a.m. we sent them an email saying, hey, look,

we've got 20 paid customers. Are you going to reconsider us? We were really sad when they said no.

A year later, we were at 100K era. A couple of months later, after that, we were like at a million

era. And bloody hell, what a ride that was my name is timor

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Timur Mamadov grew up in Russia within a very loving and supportive family.

His dad was an entrepreneur so he knew someday he wanted to do the

same, or at least have some sort of brand. His mom gave up everything to support her children,

and he's very grateful for that. He was a creative kid. He kept to himself with millions of hobbies,

including graffiti, which was a way to escape and express himself. At the time in Russia,

there weren't consequences attached to painting, and Timur got quite a rush from it.

He found himself hacking PlayStation portables at a young age when his cousin introduced him

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