MIT

“He goes, I'd like to be your first investor. You can put me down for a 100,000 dollars.”

“My mom was making 16,000 dollars a year. I had about 25,000 dollars in debt, which at the time felt like all the money in the world.”

“No, it was a series of conversations, you know, but not a lot, you know, it was like the equivalent of a few days. If you're, you know, a few coffee dates, basically, and I'm like, alright, I'm expecting to have to talk to the parents, and like, do all this st…”

“We started recruiting the smartest people we knew from MIT as engineers. And so we would do these recruiting trips out there. Arash and I would go meet people in their dorms and pitched our first few engineers that way.”

“There was a, there's an infamous mailing list, email mailing list at MIT called the jobs list that was run by a faculty member in the computer science department. And it ended up being a place where Harvard and Yale business school students would basically sen…”

“So, you know, we had 7000 of the top Latino creators in our network.”

“So whenever I would bring up to my board, hey, should we be doing direct-to-consumer anything? Should we be charging one dollar for premium content that people could not get enough of? The answer immediately was absolutely not. You cannot disturb those numbers…”

“Our biggest expense was not the content creation, because we started as an aggregator, so we had the content from all these independent talent. So that was great. That was not our biggest expense, but our biggest expense was a sales team, and a sales team is n…”

“We had at some point at the height of me to a hundred million uniques.”

“So we learned that the secret sauce, and I apply this to this day on any company that I build, was doing in culture more than in language.”

“We saw that eight a.m. Seems to be the peak poop time, at least for that neighborhood that we were looking at”

“The AI processor on this robot was an eight bit microprocessor with 256 bytes of RAM. Not kilobytes, bytes of RAM.”

“The breakthrough for us actually was a business model that we discovered. We would come up with a way of working together where I would work at cost. I would work at break even, but since I wasn't making any money, We would split the value that we ultimately c…”