POLIANA

Every business, for-profit or non-profit, requires some form of cash flow to keep the lights on. My professors in college would constantly remind me that a for-profit business that didn't make money wasn't a business. It was a hobby. Said another way, there's a clear difference between a "non-profit" and a "no-profit". For us, there was certainly an assumption that while we were a for-profit business on the books, we operated more like a non-profit organization would act. The truth is that we wanted to focus on making a great product and not on turning Poliana into a business, which is something it truly never needed to be... Roughly a year and a half ago we began with the desire to help bring a pinch of order to the chaos that is the United States political system. It was, and has always been, somewhat of a naïve (or "Pollyanna"-ish if you're into puns) way of thinking. Our team started with four fine gentlemen: cousins Seth and Shawn Whiting, Kenny House, and Grayson Carroll. This..