Meetup

“No, it was everywhere. Which probably went as well as that sounds like it would go. You've got a computer in New York City making decisions of how things should go in Moscow. We started with a couple hundred topics, and then we would tell people, it's seven p.…”

“We put an ad on Craigslist. It was very obnoxious saying interviews are next week. We were looking for a co-founder CTO. If you're not here in New York City next week, then you're, you can't be interviewed, and that's it. Within 24 hours, we had 450 applicants…”

“It took us probably four years to get to the subscription service.”

“Growing quickly, profitable, supportive investors and board, everything looking very good, and ten million plus active members worldwide every month.”

“That turned into a meeting with Governor Dean and Joe Trippi, his campaign manager, at which they said I intend to run for president, and I don't have a lot of money, but I can promise you this, from now until the day I get out of the race, I will end every sp…”

“Worldwide, what we would see is about half of the people who RSVP'd would actually show up.”

“It was the exact moment where the iPod came out, and we sent notes to all of them, and we said, hey, Matt's gonna come up and pick up your paperwork and your check and if you hand it to him today, he's gonna hand you back an iPod pre-populated with a thousand …”