Chicago

“We were like, You know, investing tons of millions and millions in like microwave technology to submit packets or to ship from New York to Chicago to save literally microseconds.”

“Right now we're only in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. In each market, we have one primary space.”

“We, you know, I helped start Taxi Magic, and we grew up a very large business in some ways there as well, like we were booking, you know, 10% of all taxi rides in San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas a bunch of other cities, and, you know, we really created that spa…”

“There's 30 of us here in Chicago, so.”

“The only difference that I would make is that I wouldn't do it in Chicago. I wouldn't fund it in Chicago. It's the most conservative bed of investors in the country. These guys are bankers, you know, you go in with that.”

“Right now we are about to breach the 100 staff number mark. We've got about 56 people here in our Chicago office. And we've got about 45 in our Chengdu office.”

“We got 11 on the team right now.”

“Part of the problem is, is that the people with money in Silicon Valley typically made it doing early stage startups, you know, and they, so they understand it. Versus people in places like, you know, Vancouver, or Chicago, or, you know, DC, made their money e…”

“We don't focus on big towns like Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, all these other areas. We focus on mom, pa shops in rural America.”

“And both we've, we have a massive office in Chicago right now. This is where our sales center is. So we have well over 200 people just there.”

“Had a hundred buildings in Chicago, and all the other competitors had raised 20 to eighty million dollars, and they were all based in Chicago, too, but he had the number one market share, and I'm like, how, how is that possible that in their backyard, you're k…”

“It was doing about three million. I bought it at a six million pre, you know, pre-money value.”