Two years ago, EvenUp was about a tenth of the size it is today - fewer people, fewer products, fewer customers, and still very early in what we were building.
Two weeks ago, I was back in Montreal for our company offsite, in the same city where I met Saam 16 years ago (Raymond came a few years later). Our theme was “The Next 10x.”
Looking around the room at 600+ people, more than half of whom joined in the last year, it was hard not to think about how far we’ve come. But what mattered more was what all that growth has allowed us to do.
Every case we touch begins with one of the worst days of someone’s life. Last year, a man I’ll call John was hit by a truck. He suffered 35 life-threatening injuries, spent months in the hospital, and accumulated more than $1M in medical bills.
His firm used EvenUp, and his case ultimately settled for $10M without litigation. The number isn’t what stayed with me. It’s the time. It’s that we helped give John years of his life back instead of spending them fighting through the court system. That’s why we’re here.
And every outcome like John’s is made possible by people across EvenUp (engineers, designers, operations, salespeople, and so many others) many of whom were together in that Montreal ballroom. To everyone who has helped get us here: thank you.
We’ve grown 10x before, but there are still millions of people like John waiting on a system that moves too slowly for them. Reaching them is the next 10x.