“Average page load time at that time was like four minutes… we brought it down to under a second of load time. And obviously the traffic exploded, Sequoia invested”

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Re-architected the website, hired a new technical team, and reduced page load time from ~4 minutes to <1 second, leading to traffic explosion and Sequoia investment

4 minutes → <1 second

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