Mike

“I think the other reason they were called drunk junk is because when Mike and Drexler became so successful in this area, other firms that really couldn't compete with them tried to kind of let people think that these bonds, there's something wrong with this, t…”

“Mike's deal that he'd made from Drexel at a time when it was a very small market was that something like 30, 30 some odd percent of the profits of his department would go to the bonus pool he could allocate.”

“You know, Mike's always been a real forward thinker but I would say the thesis didn't really resonate with me in terms of we need a different browser for work. I could imagine some upsides was, is enough upsides to actually change behaviors. I don't think so, …”

“Me and Mike, we started, we put in 2500 dollars each for the domain name and the AWS instance to stand that up and got called from that.”

“So I, one of the people I spoke with was Mike, the CEO of Ada. Which is doing, you know, over fifty million dollars ARR, it's a unicorn, etc.”

“We did another video for people with the starter template around, we created basically a social media app in, in like, 90 minutes.”

“And one of the founders, Mike, went, no, you're not. That thing is ugly. I do not want to look at it. It needs to, you know, level up with the rest of the Atlassian design standards. Our customers have expectations from us on that front, like your stuff is fun…”

“Mike had moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1978, and moved his whole department with him.”

“So taking Mike and Scott as an example, they're incredibly humble and transparent with their board, clearly outlining their perspective, asking us to directly challenge them across core issues facing the company.”