Sisson: Three of Yaza's four team members work full-time day jobs
Peter Sisson · Can Consumer App For Authenticated Videos Tied to Location Work in 2020? · Nov 27, 2020 · at 16:21
Peter Sisson, founder of authenticated video app Yaza, explains how the startup preserved capital and extended runway prior to raising outside capital.
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“You know, all of our people, there's four of us involved. The three of them have full-time day jobs and then they work on this nights and weekend. And that gives us infinite runway to allowed us to experiment with some of these different technologies before we started taking money from people.”
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