Eugene Johnson

“We grew about 50% a month, every single month from January of 2019 all the way up to March of 2020.”

“Essentially we dropped like 90, 80, 90% almost overnight.”

“So my average Bitcoin price was like 200 dollars a coin.”

“The way to answer that question, whether you're an AI native or AI adjacent, is really simple. If the LLMs, all of the LLMs on the planet disappeared, would your company, would your department, would your role continue As, you know, as if nothing happened, or …”

“Grubhub put a billion dollars into that flow and then killed it 18 months later.”

“And I built their entire platform, myself, in 24 hours, the entire prototype of that platform, and then pass it to engineers to start the process of developing it.”

“We are actually an infrastructure product, so I don't really care whether we make any money from the product itself, the software, so I'm gonna pump that entire market and throw a ton of money behind it at no cost. I'm literally gonna make that product free.”

“If I were to start over, that those first five, 10 people that I brought into the company, I would spend more and hire less. Versus hiring more and spending less per person. So if I had a million dollar budget, instead of trying to hire 10 people who can, I ca…”

“You know, our goal is a billion dollars in transactions in 2026 alone.”

“People don't know, not everybody knows this, but I'm a CEO and I'm a pastor.”

“Your job as a CEO, as a founder, is to train emotional control under pressure. Most founders and CEOs are on an emotional rollercoaster.”

“You just gotta learn how to absorb fear without, like, letting it leak downstream.”

“What we do is we facilitate transactions, but instead of just stopping at the facilitation of transactions, we leverage the data almost in an e-commerce style process to drive those customers back into this door to get them to spend more and essentially get cu…”

“It depends on their volume, but it's usually around one percent.”

“It costs us about 500 bucks to purchase all the hardware. We usually make our money back within, you know, three or four months.”

“I would say a thousand is a sweet spot, you know, that's probably where most people land.”

“So, you know, basically we grow about 15, you know, 10 to 15% month over month.”

“So to put it in perspective, in 2019, we did two million dollars in GMV. In 2020, we did five. This year we're on track to do 15.”

“I put in personally, I put in about a quarter million dollars and then we raised.”

“So we raised A pre-seed of about a million and then a seed round of about two million. What year? About four million dollars to date.”

“No, no, no. It's more in the 25, 30% range.”