Bain Capital

“And just to make the case roll the tape forward. And every one of those players that we looked at has either been acquired or gone.”

“There were some issues between the founder and the CEO hire. And so that's, that was the time when the board made its decision and asked me to step in on an interim basis, which I agreed to.”

“On behalf of Bain, I think we're in roughly the young twenties.”

“Yeah, we made it possible for everybody that was, that had options prior to raising venture capital. So for all those brave souls who took the leap before we had any financial backing whatsoever, At the Series D, we gave them an opportunity to sell some shares”

“So we're a seventy-five million in our seed. Was led by Bowery Capital with participation from Google Ventures and Greylock and a whole host of other folks. Social Capital led our A. Bain Capital led our B. Harmony Partners led our C.”

“Bain Capital is one that I can name. And then, yeah, there's a couple of other kind of like multi-stage funds that are LPs in the fund.”

“Bain came in and invested, I think it was a seventy million dollar pre. It allowed me to take some money off the table. They bought about 20% of the company. They allowed the employees to cash out a portion of their stock options at that time, so it was It was…”

“What we learned and what they taught me from that Is that first off always try to hire a full bus if you can, which is seven people, but if you can't hire in threes. The reason for that is the best salespeople are competitive. You hire two. It's okay. One coul…”