Tally

“And you build it over time by encouraging and praising every time you get challenged directly and never defending yourself or asking necessarily for examples.”

“I spent four months. I personally talked to 30 directors and vice Presidents at Capital One, HSBC, Citi, all the big banks, and I kept pushing and pushing until I ended up finding a guy whose name is also Jason, and he's just this incredible genius, top of his…”

“I've seen how you get money in the bank, and you just start spending on all this stuff, and when you really need that powder to burn, it's not there because you blew it on ping pong tables and bullcrap, right?”

“Assuming that you have a good market and a great idea, I believe that the number one lever you have to succeed is recruiting, meaning the quality of the people that you have on the team, how passionate they are about what you're doing, and their willingness to…”

“Actually formally ending the board meeting. And that's actually important because you don't want to leave the board room as the CEO without formally ending the board meeting. Cause in a really adverse scenario, if the board meeting is still running, things cou…”

“Our retention, we have a 99% monthly retention of our users”

“And one of the first hires that we made, I think it was our seventh hire, was a head of people who's really passionate about inclusion and diversity.”

“We at Tally never have and never will explicitly have a celebration around the fundraise. It's always going to be around product and delivering value to consumers.”

“When the company is facing issue X, do not say, oh, I saw another company that had a similar issue, and they did Y. And the reason is, is that that is not contextualized to your company, your industry, the resources you have, the capabilities, your knowledge, …”

“And Tally, it still has a lot of work to do, so we're by no means there, but I am proud to say that the company is majority and minority, and that hasn't been an accident.”

“As a board member, when another board member says something, do not agree nor necessarily disagree, but try to point out either the other side of the probability distribution on what they're suggesting, because no matter what, there's no way that what they're …”

“Thirty million or so, and that's multiples of the largest loss prior to that, so you know, I don't wear this badge of honor of, like, losing a lot.”