Jun 12, 2026 · 2 hr 7 min · 14 segments
Join us for the Season 12 finale of the AIAW Podcast as we welcome Beatrice Bushati, COO and Co-Founder, and Rebecca Oskarsson, Co-Founder and CTO of Pirr, for a fascinating conversation about one of…
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That's a good question because since we were working with something at that point, something extremely innovative, we actually got grants from the Swedish government.

So that took us through like the first one, one and a half, maybe even two years.

Again, since this was super early and during this time, it was very difficult to recruit as well.

It's hard to really withdraw a salary or anything in the beginning, but you managed to get through that period in some way, right?

We managed, but of course, yeah, it's been quite many months without salaries, but it's always worth it.

Okay, so what happened then? And if you just take it from the first couple of months and when you actually start to see some traction, you know, how did that go about?

and then we were um we were spreading the like peer was spread in different communities like everything from like i think it was a discord at that time and 4chan and different websites listing peer different communities listing tools yeah yeah And it absolutely exploded.

So we just, like at that point we were thinking like, how will we even go from like five to 10 users to 20 years to hundreds? And then all of a sudden we were getting many, many thousands of users every month.

That's a good question because since we were working with something at that point, something extremely innovative, we actually got grants from the Swedish government.

So that took us through like the first one, one and a half, maybe even two years.

Again, since this was super early and during this time, it was very difficult to recruit as well.

It's hard to really withdraw a salary or anything in the beginning, but you managed to get through that period in some way, right?

We managed, but of course, yeah, it's been quite many months without salaries, but it's always worth it.

Okay, so what happened then? And if you just take it from the first couple of months and when you actually start to see some traction, you know, how did that go about?

and then we were um we were spreading the like peer was spread in different communities like everything from like i think it was a discord at that time and 4chan and different websites listing peer different communities listing tools yeah yeah And it absolutely exploded.

So we just, like at that point we were thinking like, how will we even go from like five to 10 users to 20 years to hundreds? And then all of a sudden we were getting many, many thousands of users every month.
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