Kana Communications

“It's almost like you're, you do have a, you have a better quality, and the company has a better quality of existence if you really separate as much as possible at some level when you don't have a role to play anymore.”

“We took an off-the-shelf software called FileMaker Pro, found a, someone who knew how to create custom templates for it, and asked them to basically build what Mark just described, that, that placemat sketch from the sixteen-year-old turned into a FileMaker Pr…”

“When we made those calls out to these other companies, nobody had a solution. Nobody was, they all had a huge problem.”

“I also learned that just because you're set financially doesn't mean you shouldn't keep working. When I don't work, I tend to have problems arise in my life. So I like to stay busy professionally as well as personally.”

“Our series A led by Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson, DFJ. We closed that round in, I believe it was 1996, and 700,000 dollars.”

“I believe it was just under eleven billion was the market confidence peak.”

“You don't have to figure out all the answers to how you're going to build something. You have to start with something that gets you to the next challenge to solve.”

“I mean, it went from two guys and a dog hanging out in an office to, I know when I left in the summer of 2000, we had just over 1200 employees, so.”

“And within a year, we were doing million dollar contracts.”