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Toast laid off half its workforce eight weeks after February 2020 funding
“They just closed the financing in February. They were gearing up to double the size of the company, double the team, And by the end of March, probably eight weeks after that closed, instead we were announcing we had to let go half the company because we couldn…”
Papa: Silicon Valley refused to fund Kiva Systems' hardware before Boston backed it
“My favorite example is Kiva Systems, the robot company that Amazon bought. No one would back hardware in Silicon Valley when they were being founded. Came to Boston, found folks interested in backing what today we call hard tech.”
Papa: 2001 saw first year-over-year decline in global IT spending
“And the world of IT spend froze in 2001. It was the first year over year decline.”
Papa: Endeca counted half of the top 100 e-commerce sites as customers
“We had half of the top 100 e-commerce sites.”
Papa: 2012 silicon spinout generates over $1M weekly, tracks 2023 IPO
“And sure enough, I spun a silicon company out of a university in Europe in 2012. And they're on track to go public next year. They're now up over a million a week.”