If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. When we spoke in 2021, Founder CEO Vamsi Kora had bootstrapped Gathi Analytics to over $26 million in revenue in four years and exited at a fabulous multiple. Much to learn from his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Vamsi Kora: I'm from south India, from a village in Rajamundry, which is very close to the Bay of Bengal. I did Mechanical Engineering. Right after it, I went to have one of the very few well-paid careers at that time. I couldn't afford to come to the US. So I went into merchant shipping and roamed around the world for about three years. I made two and half rounds around the equator. Sramana Mitra: My father is a shipping entrepreneur. You were a mechanical engineer? Vamsi Kora: Yes, and then went to a one-year