WP Engine

“It was about a decade ago, I believe, I was able to write my first check, which was to WP Engine, and, you know, it was a small check, and a lot of them until I saw drip were small”

“It's either angel investing, because I was an early investor in WP Engine and several others that have done reasonably well, or crypto currency.”

“The life-changing income that I've received has been from selling my own companies and from angel investing in companies like WP Engine and a few others that had these massive returns on my investment or on my time, and the tax advantages were there as well.”

“With Drip, I got 11 yeses. With WP Engine, Jason Cohen got 40 yeses before he started coding.”

“I know that Jason Cohen, when he was vetting WP Engine, he would actually pay consultants or agencies, or he would offer to pay. He's like, I know your rate is a hundred dollars an hour, And I'll pay you know, for a half hour or for a full hour of your consult…”

“I had modeled my approach after Steve Blank's original customer development, but realistically, more so after Jason Cohen's validation or pre-validation of WP Engine. And he talked to a lot of people, and he got 40 yeses.”

“When I scraped together, you know, a couple, 20 grand, I think, which was an enormous amount of money for me at the time. To write Jason Cohen a check, and I was honored to be part of it, and it paid out a tremendous, tremendous payout for me, and it's probabl…”

“When WP Engine had, ah, what I think was considered a private equity kind of growth round in, in 2018 or 19, we got bought out. And that was enough money that we could pay cash for our next house”

“That was the first angel check we ever wrote. In fact, we were not accredited investors.”

“Given that WordPress has shown that they are going to be aggressive, not making themselves out to be a friendly platform right now.”

“I'm invested in 224 B to B SaaS companies. Dozens of them are doing seven or eight figures, and, you know, there's WP Engine, which is, what do we think the worth of them is a billion.”

“When we raised money, which wasn't for two years, because originally the idea was to bootstrap it again, it was the fourth bootstrap company. It's just right. But even then we only raised a million dollars. It's not exactly like earth shattering quantities of …”

“The pricing was already pretty good, but we had some revelations talking to customers, and Hearing some stories or some revelations where we reset the prices, not dramatically, just like certain things in 2012. And that's when we really took off. That's like w…”

“When WP Engine first started, we were only for like small business, maybe medium sized. A lot of times it was going through freelancers, sometimes direct. And sure, four or five years in, we saw some more appetite from larger companies, but not for their homep…”

“That bought our house. Paid cash for our house.”