> We reasoned, if a solution didn't already exist — which surely it must — it shouldn't be more than a weekend project. How hard could it be to count people?
Not sure if this is really what happened (no reason not to trust them; but sometimes founders' stories are rewritten), but it's just so cool to start like that and become a large, well funded startup.
This one's legit (cofounder here). We honestly thought it would be a side project. We originally used a raspberry pi and two TP-Links to recreate a router (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGa9-QUDWo&t=7s). People are really hard to count.
Not sure if this is really what happened (no reason not to trust them; but sometimes founders' stories are rewritten), but it's just so cool to start like that and become a large, well funded startup.