Shipt

“The timing of everything that I created, if you just rolled it forward two years, it wouldn't have worked. In, InSight wouldn't have worked. Shipt would have missed, completely missed the window. Even landing, we would have missed the window because there's ju…”

“So at the time there was a company called Instacart. They had raised something like two hundred and fifty million dollars before shipped was even open.”

“My partner there really pushed me to consider not selling. He said, look, I'm going to do whatever you want to do. I mean, you're the CEO and, you know, whatever you want to do, we're with you.”

“Multiple retailers called us within the couple of weeks from that transaction, and they wanted to meet, and, you know, you could tell they were looking to acquire somebody.”

“I mean, it was, it probably grew 300% the second year, and 300% the third year.”

“Some companies can do an acquisition, and they will absorb the company they're acquiring, and integrate it in, and you kind of lose your identity, and a lot of times these acquisitions become failed acquisitions.”

“Five hundred and fifty million dollars is actually a little more than that. That was on the table and an all cash deal.”

“My goal was to sell a thousand. I think within three weeks we had sold 750 or something like that. A week later we were at a thousand and that's when we stopped sales.”

“So I remember we were working on closing the B And we literally ran out of money to make payroll, and I had to fund it, you know, personally. I had to wire money in from my own bank account to cover payroll to get us through.”

“I invested probably a million dollars total to get to this point.”