When Charles pushed the "launch" button on December 22, 2004, he expected about 250 Forum members and Texas ended that calendar year with 239,940 active CHL licensees and 1,501 instructors.
Texas ended 2013 with 708,048 active CHL licensees and 3,440 instructors.
As of yesterday, the day of the Forum's 10th anniversary, we had 15,478 members and the estimated Texas CHL count is over 811,000.
Here's a glimpse of how we've done in CHL numbers over the years (2014 is an estimate only):
