Josh

“We're not only going to cover Lightspeed stuff. I think there's an immense opportunity to just be this place where people can digest what's happening in startups, what's happening in deep tech, what's happening in AI. And what we'll do is cover a couple storie…”

“I think Josh, who's a dear friend at Thrive, has proved that actually that's not the case, but other people still very much hold that true.”

“I think having multiple founding journeys for me, having Josh and Eddie, having previous startups, it helps you by one, knowing how to avoid some mistakes. So you don't repeat the same mistakes. So for me, like I can give you a bunch of mistakes. We can talk a…”

“The thing that really helped us is this idea of like having a weekly founder one-on-one. So what we did is every Friday we had three one-on-ones you know, Josh and Eddie Tom and Josh, Tom and Eddie. And in those conversations and this was from the very, very e…”

“I felt that Josh's ability to generalize was stronger than the other members of the team, and that was probably a key differentiating factor.”

“We went public, right, I think it was March third or whatever, twenty-twenty-one. It was Josh and I ringing the bell. And we're like, fuck yeah, this is going to be great. And then we open and the thing falls. It opens low right away and it falls right away.”

“35 seems to be that magic number. You, the society says you don't know enough until you're 35 and you certainly ran into that. And that's not true. That's ridiculous. But that's what And I said, you watch when you turn 35, it'll be almost overnight. And he did…”

“He got to the stage. He was paying himself over a million dollars a year.”

“Out of, I think we had 11 offers on this business. Kevin was the one that won, and it wasn't necessarily because his terms were the best, it's because Josh liked Kevin.”

“Josh is about a hundred and eighty million in terms of its reach.”

“On Josh itself, if I'm spending a hundred bucks, I would say about 20 to 30 bucks. Hosting, transcoding, storage, compute. And AI the AI data pipeline.”

“Five, five.”

“Employees is 2700. Wow. But I think the creator ecosystem that we work with is about a hundred and 50,000 people on the Daily Hunt side. And millions of people on the Josh side.”

“In the early days, Josh and I, we're meeting together every Sunday for four hours, five hours in, in Eddie's apartment building in San Francisco. And we were just talking about these, exactly these types of things, how to handle these things.”