The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q Okay. That's fair. And so you're trying really hard to hold out, but something gave way. You had to raise a couple million. When was that? What year? And why'd you raise?

A So we went for one year with no salary, put a little bit of money in no raise. We, and then we decided that every half year we would meet as a management team. And talk about whether we should raise our, our businesses is very capital intensive. Um, we, we have to buy storage servers and hard drives for all of our customer data. And at this point we are storing about half as much data as Dropbox. So it's, it's a huge amount of infrastructure. And so we have to pay for that somehow. And so we, we raised a small 350 K round, uh, in the 2009. From friend and family angel type people, including the co-founder of VMware, um, the head of AdWords engineering at Google, um, some other friends and family. And that was the only funding for the first five years of the company. In 2012, we decided to raise around, uh, we took two and a half million into the company and from a company called TMT investments, And the reasons we did that were a couple fold. Uh, one was that, um, at that point, the company was doing millions in revenue, had a lot of customers that depended on us, and we were still operating in much of the same way that we had originally, which is spending every single dollar that came in on either servers or salaries. And so we had no money in the bank account at any given time. And the thing that came closest to putting us out of business in all 10 years was actually a flood …

AI assessment note: “In 2012, we decided to raise around, uh, we took two and a half million”

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