I accept fully the fact that a private company neither needs to nor should reveal customer numbers or competitive secrets. I didn’t ask you to reveal how many paying customers Freshbooks has – those simply aren’t my words.

Frankly, I was interested in how you handled the discourse here and your offer to chat is perfectly adequate.

Congratulations on your success. I think you guys are on to a great business idea here and I love the way you are implementing it.

It should also be clear that this is a financially viale company, especially since they are closely tied with their sister company.

For the record, it would have been much easier to let Corky’s question hang out there unanswered – yours too for that matter – , but I did not think that would be the right thing to do, despite the ambiguity of my response.

I tried to address the question in the best way I can. If we were a public company our numbers would be public knowledge. We are not public, so our numbers are not public either.

I am sorry if this does not satisfy your interests – I truly am. We are financially viable I can tell you that, more so every month in fact. Please call me directly if you have any more questions. I am at ext 222.

Corky – that’s a fair question. Sadly I’m going to have to hold out on you though… we’re a private company that’s been around since Feb 2003 and we keep our numbers tightly underwraps – it’s a cultural thing. That said, I like to think it’s quite an accomplishment anyway you slice it….80,000 users and growing faster than ever. Not bad eh? Thanks for asking.