Bump

“We got 16,667 dollars of funding, which in hindsight is pretty small, but it was totally sufficient to come out to the Bay Area, live on a friend's floor, and build Bump some more.”

“Then we showed up. To Google on the first day and there had been a reorg and all of the plans that we had agreed upon with our sponsor were out the window and we were tasked to go work on Google plus the social network.”

“Once we got the green light you know, it was a team of, like, 20 of us from Bump latched on to maybe a team of, like, a hundred people, core people from Google with access to all of this incredible technology, and we were able to build all of Google Photos bas…”

“Throughout the batch, the product kept growing, and by the time demo day came around in August, we were actually the number two app on the entire app store.”

“The idea that you could Share contact information by taking two phones and bumping them together popped into my head in an accounting class one day.”

“We had a hundred and fifty million users of Bump.”

“No one wanted bump. It was not valuable, but this idea of photo roll and the demo that we had built was something that several companies indicated, you know, you might be right.”

“MC Hammer invested.”

“We raised too much money too quickly because we could and it prevented us from realizing the real problems that we had in our business.”

“Steve Jobs put our icon on a slide on one of his pitch decks.”

“The app went live at the end of March, 2009, and we did no promotion. It just went on the App Store, and some people found it.”

“We'd burned ten million dollars or more, probably, probably more, probably fifteen million dollars.”