Wall Street

“Is, you know, Wall Street had a good way of locking you in. They pay you more money, and they pay you more money, and they pay you more money, and at some point your opportunity cost gets so high.”

“And then all of a sudden, Ride Stock, which was at 35 bucks at the time, went down to two bucks. Because they had these expectations that, like Wall Street, just, they take things and they project unrealistic expectations.”

“We have all the hardware we need. Wall Street's gonna give us all the capital we need. We have all the machine learning and digital twin technology that we need to figure this out. We have everything we need to go do this, right? And like, we can do it. It's a…”

“The main feeling I had was kind of proud of myself for building something that got acceptance from Wall Street to a certain extent. I was very proud of that, and I was very proud of the queer community, that this was a successful business that, you know, serve…”

“We're not a subscription business. It's harder to understand what's going to happen, especially when, like, You're completely turning over the inventory of your website every single day with completely new stuff. So, so I think we were like difficult for wall …”

“In the finance world, especially at that time, it was very common to do three or four work dinners a week, and steakhouses, boozy dinners, and Inevitably, it was probably almost a 150 to 200 work dinners a year.”