MongoDB

“I mean, Mongo, between being a private and public company, raised and lost a billion dollars before they had a profitable quarter. And now already make three hundred million dollars a year in profits.”

“So that's why it's so valuable is because it's an, it's just an incredible company growing quickly, enormous market share, and is going to grow for the next 10 years. It'll be a fifty billion dollar company.”

“So we started each company with a million dollars. So 500,000 from each one of us. And that was for Gilt, Business Insider and Mongo. And then we, I did after that Dwight semi-retired. And so I did that with Nomad. I did that with Zola. And now, by now I put a…”

“You got to think of yourself as you are the coach. You are not the player. And if you're a coach and if you manage to persuade, you know, LeBron James and Kevin Garnett and a bunch of people on your team, your team's going to do well. That's actually the job.”

“Like Mongo, you got to take years to build a good enough product, and there's no way to bootstrap that. You know, it takes 20, 50, you know, there's a hundred million dollars generally for those types of companies to get there.”

“For three years, we had zero revenue.”

“Then finally, Sequoia came in and then we raised a lot of money and now it does getting close to a two billion dollar run rate.”