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“And when you meet with people who you think might be interested in buying your company, you tell them you're fundraising. You are never in the process of selling your company until it's been sold.”

“No one on our team ever There was never a missed payroll. There was never a delayed payroll. Like this was something that Matt and I always made priority number one. And I think that like, look, no one left. No one left. And this is a shitty seven month proces…”

“If you hand someone a camera and say, say something interesting, they're gonna have no idea what to say. But if you hand someone a camera and say, you know, what do you think about the latest healthcare proposal? They might, they'll probably have something to …”

“We had like five months left of money. We could barely pay like our Amazon bills. Like we were struggling. We were pinching. It didn't work. I had cut my salary to zero.”

“Programming is like a deeply draining, incredibly mentally complex task, and doing it 12:14 hours a day, you're not getting 12 or 14 And you're just completely fooling yourself.”

“When an idea at its inception, it's an ice cube, and it's rock hard, and you can look at it, and you can see it, and you can study it, and you know what it is. But when a discussion begins, you have to pass that ice cube around the room, it starts to melt, and…”

“I could give you a book on how to read on how to skateboard, and you can study that book and memorize that book and follow up the board immediately, but skate with Tony Hawk for five minutes, and you'll be better than anything that book could impart, and I thi…”

“My, Feeling about all this, and just this is a general thing, being a manager, executive, founder, is you should give people as much information as possible. You really should try and be transparent. If that information is actionable, if it can actually cause …”

“I think that the struggle for interestingness, that's a line that we used to use a lot when we were pitching, but like solving the struggle for interestingness from a video perspective is paramount to having anything succeed, and I think what Snapchat did that…”

“And I think what we were trying to do with Beam, like, it's one of the things we talked about. It should be a four-second clip or a six-second clip. If you string a bunch of them together, it needs to feel fun, like you're watching an edited movie. We were wro…”

“Gary's one of the first people I met with, and I pitched the product to him by myself as best I could. At the end of that pitch, he had this look on his face, and I looked at him and said, you don't have any idea what this is, do you? And he's like, I don't ge…”

“It takes six months if you want to go down that path at a minimum, and me as a, like, process optimizer, hyper-organizer, no, we can, of course we can do it in three months. You cannot.”

“And I think the trouble that we're seeing, certainly we saw at Beam that they're seeing with spectacles, and that I think every single live platform, none of which have truly succeeded yet is because they don't address that struggle for interestingness.”

“It was a big part of why the acquisition took place. It's why now this is not just a, no longer just a technology company, but a media and technology companies, because I think there was a demonstration of what we can do within that cross section.”

“And he was decisive too, I think, in comparison to lots of other investors, he was like, a day later, we got a yes.”