In 2020, yehongzhu was bootstrapping zettemedia before she joined Day One. In 2021, she raised an oversubscribed $1.7 million pre-seed round, backed by Afore Capital, with participation from Halogen, Hyphen, The Community Fund, MGV Capital, and some of the top consumer angels in Silicon Valley. They’ve since closed 80+ premium partnerships across local, national, and international publications, including Forbes, The Miami Herald, Boone Newspapers, New Scientist, and Haaretz, with hundreds more media partnerships on the way, and they have thousands of early adopters on their waitlist. The biggest thing she's learned along the way? "If you pin all your hopes on reaching the top of that mountain, your path up there will feel endlessly long and painful, and anything other than summiting will feel like failure. After countless trials and tribulations, I learned that starting a company isn't about getting to the top of the mountain—it's about becoming the kind of person who climbs mount...