If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. CEO Sal Akbani had bootstrapped Gateway Classic Cars to over $10 million in revenue when we spoke in 2017. This is a great story of how a two-sided marketplace was masterfully seeded and scaled in a niche market. 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? Sal Akbani: We have the same ancestry. My parents were from India. I was born in Pakistan. My mother is from Calcutta. My dad is from Bombay. Sramana Mitra: I'm from Calcutta. Sal Akbani: Oh. She was born and raised in Calcutta, but migrated to Pakistan in 1947. I was born in Karachi. I was raised in Karachi until I was 17. I finished high school there, came to the US for college, and got my degree in Aeronautical Engineering. I became a pilot. Then, I worked as an engineer for about three and