The next few years were lean and chaotic. Nick recounts a stream of mishaps that exposed their inexperience, like making 
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"We'd breached all of <a href="https://spred.tistory.com/18" target="_blank">종로포장이사</a><br /> this IP [intellectual 
property]. We didn't know what IP was, or patents."

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"I used to unroll a mattress and sleep under the table," says Nick. "I'd wash at public bathrooms."