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“I think a lot of investors are extremely tepid about doing both those things. Because reputation matters a great deal in this industry. In fact, reputation can ultimately be everything arguably matters most in this industry. And why would you want to do someth…”

“I think that many investors have absolutely zero business trying to tell entrepreneurs what to do at all. I felt that way as an entrepreneur. I feel that way as an investor. They just either haven't done the fucking thing. Or they haven't been around long enou…”

“You often get input from investors who have never done what you've done before. And so it's like, well, meaning smart people saying smart things, but it's not actionable.”

“One question I would often ask people is how big is monster energy? And they would often say like 2,000,000,003 billion. I think at the time it was seventy billion. And so I think a lot of investors are magnitudes off in how big these categories can be.”

“If you go out at a lower price, and this is what I, the advice I generally give is go out at a lower price so you can have that momentum carry your price up. Everybody's happy. Your new investors are happy. Your employees will be happy. It costs you a little b…”

“So that, that, that like, so for us, and we told our investors this from day one, That inspiration needs to be as important as value creation, and you need to be on board with that. Like, if we do the greatest thing in the world that nobody knows about and lik…”