LiveKit's cofounders used good cop bad cop to negotiate with investors

And so it just felt wrong. And the way we play this was good cop, bad cop. Deezy, my cofounder, would basically talk to the investors and, like, negotiate with them and then say, like, you know what? Russ is just not willing to do this. You know, this term, Russ is not willing to. I I can't get him to like, can we talk to Russ? He's like, no. He doesn't wanna talk to you guys. Once

they kind of, like, you know, he torched me a little bit, but, like, we planned that that's how it was gonna work. I'm like, alright. I'll just be the bad guy here. You need that. I mean, the the only other bad guy that sometimes solo founders have to use is just the the acquirer. Right? It's like, listen. The acquirer doesn't give a shit about you guys. Like, they only they wanna buy us. Yeah. So transferring