To truly empower the world, we need to be global and create the necessary infrastructure to serve customers everywhere. Reinventing the funding industry allows us to focus on customer happiness as a key driver of our business.

Not having a lot of money forced us to innovate and focus on making every dollar count, which ultimately helped us grow faster than competitors who had more funding.

I felt crushed after failing to secure funding, but I decided to use our remaining resources to continue pushing forward and meet with customers to understand their needs better.

We learned the importance of understanding our customers' needs, especially as we scaled, to ensure we were meeting the right demands.

Focusing on impact rather than just shipping features has transformed our company culture, emphasizing the importance of understanding customer needs and how to measure success.

In the early days, we struggled to raise money, which taught us to focus on solving real problems and to build an efficient, profitable business from day one.

Many founders mistakenly prioritize investors over customers, thinking they need to please investors to succeed, but the focus should be on solving customer problems instead.

The most significant part of our turnaround since going public was shifting our focus to making active traders happy, which led to rapid improvements in customer satisfaction.

When we approached our investors, we clearly communicated that our intent was not to use most of the capital raised for funding receivables, but rather to create a financing solution that allows us to operate effectively.