Boston

“Well, there were five beer distributors in Boston. I went to each one of them. They all turned me down.”

“Well, there were five beer distributors in Boston. I went to each one of them. They all turned me down.”

“I had about 25,000 dollars. My dad essentially lent me, gave me 75,000 dollars, and that 100,000 dollars became the grub steak, the equity, that allowed us to build that first 400 square foot cookie store. In downtown Boston.”

“It talked about taking the firm's resources and expertise, I think it was a hundred million dollars, and investing it alongside coaching in black business development and entrepreneurial growth in the greater Boston area.”

“I think the culture of Bostonians is a very do-it-yourself mentality. And so that was some friction for this type of service, and I felt like if we could just get to San Francisco, where, you know, it's the tech company capital of the world, like, this is the …”

“Even at scale with TaskRabbit, Boston was like number 10 market. For us.”

“So, so first of all, I saw this happening in many different groups, right? Not just this one group. And also, I talked to my friends in other cities in the US. People were doing this in Boston. People were doing this in Seattle. So Chinese immigrants were doin…”

“Well, at that point, we had, we were doing our first batch, I think it was like, 50, and I think we sold most of those, if not all of them, at that Masters, yeah, Championships regatta.”

“We were this tiny company in Boston for, you know, almost two years before we even opened the San Francisco market.”

“And we started this effort a decade ago when we launched Rise of the Rest, started doing, you know, bus tours around the country, then launched investment fund, which made now 200 investments in a hundred different, different cities in what we call Rise of the…”