COVID

“This is part of an air purifier, which can actually kill COVID in under four seconds. And take out carcinogens from the air.”

“Bill Gates is right. COVID is one thing, The next thing is going to be worse. Viruses mutate. This isn't going to be the only thing that we see.”

“If we're going to be coming out of this COVID thing, I think everything will be completely back to normal in the next six months, if not sooner.”

“It's like we still don't definitively know what the mortality rate from COVID is. There's tons and tons of data, but it all has very different biases, so it's not a, it's not something that's easily solvable with more data. It's more about having the right dat…”

“Number of presentations, Sean, actually went up by 150% in COVID because more people were communicating remotely.”

“Where you raise the seed amount, where, what you're talking about around half and five million dollars before COVID. And today it can be somewhere between five and 50. Even I've seen a seed investment.”

“I was very concerned about our accounts receivable when COVID started. Well, something very surprising happened, and this was even before the PPP. People paid their bills more quickly. I almost feel like at least for my particular business, we've shifted more …”

“Along the way, we, we've done you know, a couple of layoffs, you know, around COVID and around some, You know, economic turmoil”

“At that level, most of the time it's still physically in person. I'd say the most of the assessment now changed a lot since COVID of course it's virtual, but at that level, there's still a preference for in-person assessments.”

“So what was a multimillion dollar business became I like to say I grew it to zero. Wasn't exactly zero, but it didn't make sense to keep it open and it wasn't profitable when you start factoring in people and advertising.”

“And we paid about a euro a kilo in air freight costs, which pre-COVID was pretty good. At the peak of COVID, that went up to 10 euros a kilo. That was no longer commercially viable.”