StyleSeat

“I found my first engineer by posting an ad on Craigslist and saying, I'm stealth company seeks engineer to build first version of product for equity, only no money. And believe it or not, that actually resulted in a fantastic engineer from Google who had made …”

“And so those constant challenges you have to love, because if you don't love that super frenetic pace, it's gonna, gonna kill you because it's incredibly, incredibly intense.”

“In the beginning, it was Garrett, and then I was working out of Travis's house three days a week for like a year, and then it became Jenny Lefcourt, who after, you know, as the needs have changed for the business, the, my mentors have changed.”

“Getting to the next level, whatever problems you have to ask people and you have to ask a ton of people. You can ignore their advice, right? But just getting that information in those data points on this is how other really successful businesses have done it a…”

“And if you aren't really comfortable with that level of criticism and transparency, I think that can be challenging to stick around for the long run.”

“I saved a ton of money because I lived in, I think it was technically a closet in this home with a whole bunch of other roommates. I paid 400 dollars in rent and I did that for a couple of years and saved a little bit of, yes, saved a little bit of money”

“Our first seed round, my very first, well, my first two advisors and angel investors were Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick.”

“One of the big lessons that I've learned around what makes a good board member is having as much operation experience as you can, because investors can sort of say, well, here's what we've seen other companies do. Here are some trends and here's some data. And…”

“Last year we did about 1.6 billion in bookings across the platform.”

“They've raised over forty million in challenging funding conditions from some of the true greats of the business, Including Alfred Lynn at Sequoia, Chris Sacker, Jeff Clavier, Eileen Lee, Lightspeed, the list goes on.”

“Melody McCloskey, founder and CEO at StyleSeat, the largest and fastest growing marketplace in the seventy-eight billion beauty and wellness industry.”

“And I think, you know, we're going to be profitable in the next year.”

“I think everyone should bootstrap because especially in boom times, I mean, a couple of years ago we had pretty significant boom times.”

“But after that first year or two, you have to take a completely different type of approach to running and building your business, which is not having all the answers and not being the person to go do it. You turn from a doer to someone who needs to empower the…”