If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. In 2019, French entrepreneur and Toucan Co-founder CEO Charles Miglietti told me the story of how he bootstrapped first to $5 million ARR and then closed a $10 million round. 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? Charles Miglietti: I'm from France. I grew up in Normandy. I did engineering. I'm married with three kids. Sramana Mitra: You still live in Normandy? Charles Miglietti: I live in Paris now. I learned programming, AI, and data analytics in Ecole. Just after college, I did an internship with Apple in Portland. Then I started working on my first company. We did summaries of web-based content. Sramana Mitra: Was that B2B? Charles Miglietti: It was B2C but with no revenue. It was more like a project. This company