If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. John Stewart and his co-founder have built MapAnything from Charlotte, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. When we spoke in 2018, he had raised over $40 million in funding, proving that you can build sizable VC-funded SaaS businesses from anywhere. MapAnything was sold to Salesforce in May 2019. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where did you grow up? Give us some early story. John Stewart: I'm from upstate New York. I'm from a middle class background. My mother was a stay-at-home mom. My father was in the construction business. He was an architect. I went to school in New England for Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in western Massachusetts and graduated in 1997. Sramana Mitra: I went to Smith College for my undergraduate. Western Massachusetts is something I'm very