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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q So, all right, so let's, Let's get to this story. How, how does this begin? I mean, I mean, the sort of the apocryphal story, and I'm sure there's a lot of truth to it, is that you were planning a party, basically, for you, for yourself. Right.
A Yes. Um, so it was actually, it was 2007, and I turned 21, and, um, I was having a great time in college, and I wanted to have a party for my 21st birthday with my best friend at the time, who was turning 20. And I had never really had a big party before. Um, I hadn't had a bar mitzvah. I hadn't had a big 18th birthday party. Um, and, and I kind of had this vision. It's really cold in Boston in the springtime. My birthday's in March. Everybody's, like, freezing, and I wanted it to feel like summertime. It was like a beach-themed party, um, and I kind of, I filled this, this, this place with palm trees that I, that I bought and then returned to Home Depot. You know, in hindsight, they were probably, like, the kind of potted plant that you would just put in an office, but I thought of them as palm trees, and I thought it was really atmospheric, and, um, people, like, brought their A-game, and they came dressed up as, like, lifeguards, and sailors, and, um, you know, beach bums. It was really fun, and when it came time to inviting people, I wanted to send the message that this was going to be a great party, and I wanted to show how much thought and care had gone into the planning of the party.
AI assessment note: “Yes. Um, so it was actually, it was 2007, and I turned 21”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q And how did you, how were you financing that? How were you paying for them?
A So we were very scrappy. Um, we were kind of hard negotiators, but we, you know, the first people we brought in were a design firm in Boston that kind of helped us create wireframes in a flow. And we, we paid for that with the savings that, you know, my sister and I had, which was a little bit of money that our grandparents had given us or had left us when they died about, you know, not, not a ton of money. Um, so we use, A design firm to kind of create the first wireframes. We used those wireframes, which looked really polished and kind of gave a better picture of where we were going to hire some back-end engineers who were CS students at Brown University, who were friends of friends, who had some time over the summer to work with us on setting up a database and beginning to build this application, and then they were great, and we kind of, but then they had to go back to school.
AI assessment note: “we paid for that with the savings that, you know, my sister and I had”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Facebook events was out there. What did you do? How did you start?
A Yeah, so we, we had very few tools at our disposal, but we really needed to try to figure out how to use the ones that we had, so I was a, you know, kind of an amateur designer, um, and my sister started reading a lot of books around product design, user experience design, so I started designing, um, What I thought the invitations could look like. I was truly, I was the first designer and I could see it. So it was, it came easy to me. I learned how to use Photoshop. I started creating kind of example invitations. And so we, we, we tried to lay it out ourselves. We got kind of far, um, but it was, it wasn't really actionable. So, um, we began to bring other people into the project who had, you know, deeper expertise around the things that we couldn't do.
AI assessment note: “I learned how to use Photoshop. I started creating kind of example invitations.”
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D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q And so, what kind of invitations did you, did you decide to send?
A So, you know, the options at the time were to print paper, um, which would have been, you know, out of budget for me, and really impractical, because, you know, I didn't have my friends' mailing addresses, people didn't really use physical mail, um, or to use, you know, one of the first generation, you know, online RSVP tracking websites, um, and, um, Those were riddled with ads and, um, not very beautiful, and you couldn't really achieve the, the sort of self-expression or the design value that I was going for, and I think what I ended up doing was sending an email, um, but it got me thinking that consumers, you know, could have another option, which would marry the, the, the beauty and the, and the personal feeling and the customization of Paper stationery, which is, like, incredibly, can be incredibly expressive and beautiful, but difficult to attain with this sort of functionality and the practicality of digital communication. And, you know, no one had done it before, but I believe that we could do it, not having any background in, you know, any formal training in software engineering or web design, but I believe that we could do it.
AI assessment note: “and I think what I ended up doing was sending an email”
