Over the summer, @notsorrybryan I talked through some of the lesser known parts of building Clio. Things like: - We originally thought @goclio would stay small. About a year in, we realized it could be much, much bigger - We didn't immediately start with legal tech as a focus. My co-founder Rian was working in IT at Gowlings when he saw firsthand how bad legal software was at the time. We saw a huge opportunity to bring cloud to legal. - @chrija emailed us twice before we saw it. Both messages landed in spam - For years, we hauled a 100 pound trade show booth across the US and once nearly drove into a tornado - @EJWalters and I had been talking about Clio + Fastcase for more than a decade - Then I met with @lfaus in 2025. Weeks later, we announced the $1B vLex acquisition. - Full circle moment: Gowlings was one of the advisors on that deal. Bryan captured one of the fullest versions of the story I’ve read, but it still feels like the setup to what's next :)