Peter Thiel

“PayPal's co-founder, Peter Thiel, wanted to scrap the entire idea and break that early promise in order to keep costs down.”

“That was the strapline of our 25 page business plan, which we took to Silicon Valley in the summer of 2010, and ended up successfully pitching Peter Thiel at the time for a minuscule 1.5 million pounds, which we were over the moon about. And that, that then be…”

“It was actually Peter Thiel that really convinced me to kind of push me over the edge to do it very quickly.”

“The reality is, is that a 100,000 dollars in the corporate context is like, It doesn't get you very far. It's basically, it's like almost nothing. So, you know yeah, maybe, maybe pay some rent you know, in, in, in the Bay Area at least, you know. So the realit…”

“It was actually Peter Thiel that really convinced me to kind of push me over the edge to do it very quickly.”

“If you read Clay Christensen, he's really good at kind of saying, here's why incumbents, even when they do a good job, don't head these things off at the pass and get disrupted by these new changes. But what he doesn't, Go as much in depth into is to say, okay…”