Sequoia Capital

“We had offers coming in from a variety of different groups, and the one that shocked us the most was Sequoia Capital, which was a pre, it is a preeminent Venture capital firm in Silicon Valley that we thought, well, maybe one day, like a year from now, we'll g…”

“We were confident enough to say that we were accepting term sheets on a certain date, and, ah, and we received three term sheets, and we raised six and a half million from Sequoia Capital in that round.”

“Sequoia Capital, Rolof Botha, I mean, they first funded us in the depths of the recession in 2009.”

“We had a handshake deal that night. So one business day turnaround.”

“Len and I walked into a four-year vesting plan after funding the company for three years, clearly a mezzanine investment. We're making, we're booking a quarter million dollars a month at that point.”

“And then I started noticing that I was really good at ripping into people's ideas. They would bring in this really cool concept. And of course it was half baked. It was just, you know, some bright eyed kid Freshly out of college thinking about here's what they…”