Maveron

“I have this offer from a venture capital firm, which was a firm up in Seattle called Maveron, and I said, but I don't think I'm going to take it, because I'm going to sell pants on the internet.”

“I met with first round capital, general catalyst, Maveron, you know, all the names that we know today of backing up some of the biggest and best brands and companies. And Despite having connections or relationships with people, when I showed up with a deck tal…”

“I will never forget it was the fall of 2007, and we had an investment meeting in Seattle, and he walked in and he said, we need to slow down our investments.”

“We saw an investment at Maveron called Dollar Shave Club. And we passed.”

“In fact, Maveron, who was, you know, came from the money of Starbucks, they told us that if Starbucks had walked in their door right now, they wouldn't fund them.”