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Q Okay, and where was your brain at that point? Was this like, uh, oh my god, I'm broke, I'm gonna be on the street if I don't make the company work, or you had plenty of money in savings, and it was a great time to risk starting your own thing.
A Um, I had been working at Apple for a bit and had saved up, um, a decent amount where I knew I wouldn't need to at least worry about the fundamentals for a while. Um, but of course, you don't want to be in the weeds too long, so pretty much after launching, we were able to get version one out Within about like six, seven months of release and see how that would do. And luckily at the time there weren't really the same tools for graphic designers, um, to do animated web content. And so it just kind of struck a nerve with people and, um, the launch went really well. And so that was able to see, oh, okay, this will be a successful business.
AI assessment note: “had saved up, um, a decent amount where I knew I wouldn't need to”
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Q Okay, how do you, when they say, when he comes to you and says, Jonathan, I just, I really want to go back to Apple. I liked my cushy salary there. I liked the salmon lunches, and I liked the The problems that we was working on. How do you get him out of the company, but try and keep some of the equity?
A Uh, so we did have a discussion about that, and it really came down to the fact of, you know, if you're not going to be involved in the company anymore, and he, you know, at that point wanted to go back to Apple, it was a matter of, well, I think this equity belongs with the company, so we can use it for, excuse me, for, um, you know, paying employees in equity, for example, or doing other things with it, and You know, I think four years is a really good run in a company, but over the lifetime of what hopefully is a very long-lived company, um, the equity equation makes a little bit less sense at that. And I think most founders over the course of time want to sell their share and convert it to money as well.
AI assessment note: “it was a matter of, well, I think this equity belongs with the company”
