Tickle

“Tickle became a top-twenty site in the entire world. At one point, we had a lot of traffic, and we sold that company to Monster which was a big company back then for a hundred million. So that was a great outcome. We had only raised one round of capital,”

“And that's when we went to, and this was a hard decision at the time, we went back to Andrew and David, and we said, okay, it's clear this is not a blip. If you would like your money back, your nine million dollars back, we will give you your money back.”

“She was our head of marketing at Tickle. ... Milt was our, like, director of marketing in 1999.”

“We had gotten an offer for forty-five million as a company when we were called Emode, and then six months later, we got an offer for 110.”

“I think we maybe had 400 fun tests and 80 serious tests by the end of when I left Tickle. So it was kind of a traffic acquisition funnel where, where you take the fun ones and then we try to see if you're interested in any of the serious ones.”

“We built a social network, a photo sharing social network called ringo.com, which was kind of like a early Instagram, but it was not on mobile because there was no mobile in 2004 or five.”

“I realized that, yeah, you have to be a founder to make life changing money.”

“Michael Birch, who was my investor in my previous company, and he was the original founder of Bebo, and he basically had sold, he created a social network, he sold it to Tickle, which was a quiz company, and Tickle was like a hundred million dollar company tha…”