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“And ended up raising almost six million dollars in our Series A.”

“So our first capital round outside of my own dollars was 1.1 million dollars.”

“We ended up selling for just about three hundred and seventy five million dollars”

“By the end of the month, we had about 50,000 signups, and what was really crazy is then, all of a sudden, I had almost 10 term sheets being like, I want to commit to your Series A.”

“We, fifty million dollars, 50 plus million dollars of cash.”

“And Josh, we spent nothing on marketing. It wasn't like we had a million dollar a year marketing budget. We spent Tens of thousands of dollars. Nothing in the rearview mirror to build a user base of millions of users.”

“After four more years of hard work, Alexa had raised seventy-three million in venture funding. Her last round, the Series D, was led by Northwestern Mutual.”

“My last day was December 18th of 2008. Lehman Brothers went under, the world was in free fall financially, and I kind of said to myself, in the world, zag, do you have to zag? And I was like, I'm gonna go start a company, I'm gonna move to New York. I'm sole f…”