GOAT

“In the beginning, we were the only seller since no seller would wanted to list on code because we were unknown. So what we did is that we went to Home Depot and bought a bunch of different tiles. So you see, you have like the wood tile, those one foot by one f…”

“We went out to raise, and we actually got a five million dollar offer from a top tier VC, and it was sitting for us, waiting for us at the table, and, you know, we saw the valuation. It was a fair valuation, but we actually said, Hey, you know what? We're goin…”

“And I went in and secretly bought a pair of shoes so that I could tell the team, Hey guys, we sold something today.”

“We raised over seven million dollars and had only about one and a half million dollars left.”

“So that week leading up to black Friday, we had over a 100,000 users sign up and it crashed our site every single day.”

“If I were them, I probably would have written us off too.”

“Well, for me, I don't think it impacts margin structure too much because while there's store overhead, if the store is in a Class A location, it's no different than spending money on Facebook marketing. Instead of spending it on digital ads, you're spending it…”

“You make micro pivots even when you're building a startup and you have that initial vision. So for me, it's, you know, whether it's a micro pivot on a daily basis or a big pivot, if you know that something's not working, Just change it up.”

“So I put 10 grand, it was called Grub With Us back then. In 2011, and so that 10 grand is worth, whatever it was, three point, no, yeah, three, estimated lat, no, sorry, current last, 7.4 million dollars.”