Particle

“Sorry, rewind, it's like half a million, 1,000,002 1,000,004 million is like.”

“We had a 250,000 dollar goal. We raised 125,000, but Kickstarter is all or nothing. So that means we raised zero and that product never came to be.”

“And we have customers who will be deploying millions in 2018.”

“These devices that are already out there that are insecure, they're not going anywhere. You know, people aren't necessarily unplugging these things. And so there's going to be, there's going to continue to be security concerns. I mean, for, it could be decades…”

“We raised about ten million dollars late last year.”

“I think we probably spent like 15 grand to get from idea to launch Kickstarter campaign, and then we probably spent another 20 grand to get from there to the second Kickstarter campaign.”

“What that means is we give them a cloud platform. Those devices can connect to, we give them the physical hardware that'll actually go into the device. So like a wifi module or a cellular modem. We get, if it's cellular, we give them SIM cards and data plans, …”

“These days, most of our money comes from selling hardware because of where we are and sort of how long we've been around. Most companies start by buying a bunch of hardware upfront and then the recurring stuff kicks in later. So right now, most of our revenue …”

“And that launched in May 2013 with a 10,000 dollar goal on Kickstarter, and we raised almost 600,000 dollars.”

“Jeff Lawson, the CEO of Twilio is the one I respect quite a bit. A lot of our business, we're sort of following his path and the things that he figured out about how to build a developer community and build a business off of. So I have a ton of respect for him…”