Gobble

“We don't care if someone's in the trough of sorrow. That is our job to help you get out of the trough of sorrow. We've done it before. We'll continue to do it. There are ways out.”

“There was a time in 2013 when no one would invest in me, and I was running out of all of my money, and we had like one payroll in the bank. I think our bank was like 8000 dollars or something and that's when I did YC.”

“One of the first valuable innovations or features that we released into our product was the ability to accept promo codes, because attribution of your growth is extremely important from day one, or else I can't tell you what's working or not working.”

“I shut down that personalized dinner service, and we were doing maybe, like, one and a half to two million in ARR, but it wasn't going anywhere, and the food wasn't different enough”

“In both my businesses, in the recruiting business and the chef business or the food business I have now I made initial sales without a website, and I proved our concept in the first three months before any other kind of funding.”

“In the early days, what I say for single founders is, you kind of have, like, if you're swimming in the ocean, it's kind of like a net buoy system, so you have to find, like, three or six people that are, like, those orange buoys, and you're swimming by yourse…”

“When we went to raise Series A, the investors asked, how much of your money is from families, and the model you're pitching, and how much of your money is from catering, and from enterprise? And at that point, some 75% was from enterprise, because when you do …”

“Over those three and a half years of finding product market fit, our monthly burn was 40,000 dollars on average.”

“Like, we raised 200 K on demo day.”

“Now we've started, like, you know, doubling or tripling year on year, And so, if someone were to acquire us now, and we can't weather the storm of a bad meal kit market, I think we're, like, leaving billions on the table.”

“In the 50 to a hundred year vision, I actually want Gobble to be, let's call it the Disney of the home, and I, my thing with Gobble is about creating magical experiences at home that are easy and fit into this busy life for any kind of person”

“Last year for our Series B, I had a very difficult time raising money. Like, it all looks fantastic, and there's lots of news and videos, but it, like, took every ounce of my being. It was the hardest fundraising, and it's because Amazon acquired Whole Foods, …”

“What I would suggest to an entrepreneur is that real entrepreneurship comes from diverse perspectives and from innovating at the edge of different industries. It's really hard just to get 10 homogenous engineers in a room and, like, make something incredible. …”

“Gobble actually has an engineering team in India and in South Africa, and, like, we're just waiting for the visas. And it's been, some people have been waiting for, like, 14 months, and they're still working for us remotely.”