between losing our first home, firing our CTO, going broke, losing our kitten, a parent's cancer diagnosis, and personal health battles, the only thing that keeps our team going is the ability to think long term. we are a team of 3 building in the most competitive space of our time. but this is precisely why we are going to win. if you ask anyone, we shouldn't exactly exist. @gadekarjay30, an architect, was 22 when he went to clean a remote himalayan village and got 3k locals to subscribe to the clean up. relying on outside funds to keep it going made him realise he needed to earn his own resources first. that is what got him into entrepreneurship. @vineetgupta3012, was 21 when he built our memory layer that beat the state of the art benchmark by 50%. comes from a tier 3 town in india, was rejected by 80 odd companies, and moved to bangalore because he wanted to build something generational. and i wanted to be a filmmaker, studied architecture, dreamt of building the future homes of the world, self-learnt product and experience design, and led all our growth alone until now. and yet, here we are. looking back at why we've come this far, it boils down to what @naval said. - we work hard, but we think harder. we debate a button on the homepage and the company direction with the same seriousness. debates get heated because of how passionate we are. so our output is tasteful and focused. we cut the noise and the fluff and hold on to what is timeless. it reflects in the product too. - we share a long-term ambition. we three believe in the power of personal intelligence, and we think the world has not seen a shred of what it can look like. in its ultimate form it is a home that responds to your needs, beyond just devices. these two things give us the clarity we need to face whatever comes our way while building @minimi_ai when we look back, there won't be any regrets. we did the long-term version of everything.