Check
company on 2 shows · 9 statements across 4 episodes · said 14 times in 4 episodes since 2016
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Kaufman: Intuit Acquired Check for Close to $400M in Q2 2014
“Actually, it was close to four hundred million dollars.
And funny enough in Q two of 2014, when we sold the company to Intuit, we were like the largest M&A deal according to the Wall Street Journal by coincidence.”
Kaufman: Intuit Still Uses Check's Core Data Infrastructure for Bank Feeds
“We decided to create our own data foundation, which is, by the way, was adopted by Intuit, and using into that same technology is using, Intuit is using today for their bank fee.”
Kaufman: Mint's Third-Party Data Provider Caused Frequent Reliability Mistakes
“We, at that time we had a competitor called mint, which was a very popular mobile application, but they bought their data. So they relied on a third party data infrastructure again, before the plot days, which was less reliable, causing a lot of mistakes.”
Kaufman: Menlo Ventures made 3-4x return on Check in under 8 months
“This was, like, one of their highest IRR because, you know, when you return, when you do, like, three or four X, which that's what they did over the course of, like, six to eight months”
Kaufman: Check founders each owned 5% to 10% at exit
“I think we were two founders and each of us had like you know, between five to 10% of the company.”
Kaufman: Intuit added a $25M employee retention pool in Check buyout
“And we also took that retention shot, which at the time was an additional twenty-five million dollars, and we fully deployed it across the board to people”
Walk: Investor-founder relationships do not improve after writing a check
“If it doesn't feel right before you write the check, it definitely doesn't get better after.”
Tisch: BoxGroup passed on investing in Stitch and Check
“There's a company that we looked at called Stitch, which just raised a nice round. There's a company we looked at called Check, which just raised a nice round.”