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So even though company raise money at 50 mill valuation you are going to be issued share at 6 mill valuation"},{"question":"You stated that you currently have 600k worth of debt. I’m not sure I understand how the debt could be so high, considering you’re basically an application matching groomers to consumers. I understand you need to discount clients the first few times to capture them, but is the...","answer":"Emily thank you for your question. it took us a few years and 2.5M to get there (600k debt in investment included), remember - we introduced a whole new way to groom dogs (in-home). In the initial stages we really had to educate customers through multiple marketing touchpoints, and offer discounts to try it out as an early adopter. We also had to build a native application for both consumer and groomers, which took time to perfect. 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