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On the about page you mentioned that you raised instead of continuing on the bootstrapped path. What made you pull the trigger?

My first impression when I checked out the landing page and product was: this is a perfect bootstrapped SaaS product idea to grow to meaningful ARR with a small team of 2-3 + some hired help for things like customer support.

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[This is Julia, the cofounder/CEO] We bootstrapped for 8 months and grew to about 100k of MRR before raising money. I wrote a blog post about this decision https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-we-decided-to-raise-money-f....

tl;dr is that 1) It's a competitive domain, so we felt we needed to grow our team quickly to stay relevant 2) There's a lot of technical challenges with video editing in the browser + cloud, so we needed to be able to hire talented engineers to scale and 3) I believe there's a huge business in empowering creative teams, so we think we can get to venture scale and needed the capital to support that.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I personally believe big ambitions lead to a more interesting journey, as well as having the ability to have more impact at scale. Impressive MRR!

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