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Front has a story that any budding startup would envy.

Highlights from the past four years include scaling to 100 employees, acquiring more than 4,000 customers, raising almost $80 million in funding and closing the books on its first acquisition.

But as co-founder and CEO Mathilde Collin tells it, the workplace communication tool’s meteoric rise can’t be traced back to an incredible founding vision from their early Y Combinator days. In fact, Collin was unsure where the product was heading at the time and had serious doubts about whether the company would take off.