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What would happen if you decided to start a tech company and didn't look back? In 2024, I started my first technology company while becoming a new dad. So you can imagine how that went. I couldn't tell my eyes turned red, can't count the number of sleepless nights I had. Had no from so many investors, more than I can even count, and still struggled to get like our first few customers in. Most of these investors said, we needed millions in funding. Well, we bet on ourselves and our laptop. They also said there's no funding in housing technology. But we decided to solve it anyway. Some of them even said, wait for the right moment. We decided that the moment is right now. The journey broke me, it rebuilt me, and it taught me so many life valuable lessons. But I think the most important lesson I learned is that the greatest risk isn't actually failing. It's doubting your own conviction. While so many other people might debate and analyze, or you might have fears that your friends are looking at you funny, there's so many builders that are out there, building, testing, and learning. Not afraid to be out there, not afraid to take those risks. So I stopped asking for approval and started demanding more from myself. I also stopped explaining my vision and decided it's better to demonstrate it. You can beat 99% of people out there, not by being smarter or luckier, but by sheer determination and grit. You know, I think success happens when you realize it's just a numbers game. It's about the number of times you're going to try and try and try again. So I'm going to show you my unfiltered version of this journey. So for the next 100 days, I'm bringing you inside our messy, unfiltered, imperfect world of building this tech startup. I'm Shawn, and follow along this journey as I take you through us building Pango and SiteSeer.