If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Booksy Co-founder and CEO Stefan Batory started a software development company in Poland with a few other partners. Today, he's running a high-growth, VC-funded SaaS and marketplace business in the US. Awesome journey! Here is our conversation from early 2020, plus you can listen to our podcast interview from 2021 here. Sramana Mitra: Let's go back to the very beginning of your journey. Tell us where you're from, where you were born, raised, and in what kind of background. Stefan Batory: I'm from Warsaw, Poland. I was born and raised in one of the poorest parts of the country. I got a scholarship and went to a high school here in the US back in 1994. I graduated from that high school and moved back to Poland where I studied Applied Mathematics at the Warsaw University of Technology. As I was finishing my degree, I started a software