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If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Founder CEO Josh Millet had bootstrapped Criteria to almost $5 million in revenue before raising funding. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have? Josh Millet: I was born in Toronto, Canada. I have dual citizenship of US and Canada. I came to the States for school 20 years ago and have been here ever since. I had an indirect route to software entrepreneurship. I did a graduate degree in medieval French history. I was intent on being a professor at that point. At the end of grad school in 2000, I started a test preparation website with a friend of mine. This was when the first dotcom boom was crashing. We started that venture and sold it a year and a half later. That was when I was bit by the entrepreneurial bug. Sramana Mitra: Where was