COVID-19

“My belief is that we're going to see a second wave of COVID in the fall, and there will be a subset of states that will lock down and a subset of countries that will again.”

“Almost all of these collaboration companies are proving to be counter-cyclical with COVID 19, and so far the mass adoption of remote work, I think, is really forestalling what you and I both thought would be a die-off of the first big wave of collaboration com…”

“COVID has just accelerated that pre-existing trend. And that's something that's not gonna, you're not gonna turn back time on that after that happens.”

“I think we're seeing, and I think every person with children right now is seeing this, that like there is a Huge change happening in K through 12 education because of COVID. And the two things that I think have really changed are parents are now aware of how t…”

“When COVID came and the Queen's Gambit hit and our numbers like five X overnight, it grew the game of chess five X.”

“First week of COVID, everyone gets a week off. And I said, okay, it might be great. Everyone can adjust the new situation. Like the opposite was the case. Like purpose was gone. So I think that was a mistake.”

“So COVID hit, and in four weeks we went from just massive, like, about two hundred million of revenues to losing 85% of that.”

“Working your ass off and hustling is like has always been able to get you ahead, but there was a culture pre COVID where that was like table stakes and what everybody did and you were in the office all the time and you showed up at eight and left at six. And i…”

“Nobody builds a plan where your revenues fall 90, 95% in a matter of days, which is what happened in the early weeks of COVID.”

“So I think effectively in the end, COVID was not a good thing for us.”

“We lucky that Ian closed around in 2020 when our revenue halved and COVID happened and, you know, stock down 30%”

“It took three weeks from that board meeting to us being at zero revenues, literally zero.”

“For us it was the decision that ultimately made Get Your Guide into what it is today, because just six months after we raised that money, COVID hit. So we would be bankrupt without that round.”

“They were the first company to let people go. And they got so much shit on, ah, for it because they fired people Over Zoom, as if there was any other way they could have, and they still got a lot of shit from the press”