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...entrepreneurial journey early. Can you tell us about your first forays into being an entrepreneur? Yeah. Absolutely. My, earliest days were in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which is where I was born. And, you know, Baton Rouge is a city that's divided and
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...here to capitalize on that. It's just a it's a match made in heaven. You created this almost out of college. You spent a little bit of time as a consultant, which I always find funny. Like, you're brand new out of college and you're a consultant. Lik
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So that we thought we might just write something more interesting and put those ads for those restaurant in the, essentially a magazine or booklet we created and then hopefully that people will be interested to take it. Right? So but because we write
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...cofounders and and built entrepreneurs first, when we were 25. And we knew nothing about venture capital. We knew nothing about start ups. We started off as a as a education company basically and and weren't investing. And then, exactly ten years ago
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My CTO, Jacob, he's like one year older than me, but like a 100 times smarter. So you meet him at university, you become friends. Do you start tinkering on ideas together then when you're doing CS together? I mean, they spend most of the time playing
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...that journey was like? Yeah. So, you know, rewinding back to the company I was working for in India with I which I think sets the stage. So when I was working at the start up in India, the team I was on was
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...founders nowadays, which is that I just got in the car and then I just wouldn't go out of the car before the driver had signed up. So I just were like, hey, like, give me your details. I'll just do the account for you, download the app, set it up. An
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...and got, introduced to the to the industry of venture capital from a college friend who, recognized my entrepreneurial spirit and was trying to coach me on what I might wanna do post college and, expose me to this wildly cool industry, which by the w
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...My cofounders were actually, my, coworkers at the start up. Yeah. And we decided to start our own company, and, you know, this is probably the most exciting relevant part for the audience. But we built our company, moved back to The US, raised some c
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...and a founder yourself in the last few months. And I reflect back on our, you know, one on ones and the ants in the pants, the anxiety, anxiousness. There's always a desire to do more. And I've probably told you, like, yeah. That's that's cool. Like,
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...founder at the solar company. I was one of the first employees. And then the last question I wanted to answer was, did I want to be an investor? I did lead a $15,000,000 equity raise for the solar company and was curious as to what it was like to be
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...this journey and career path for the last fifteen, twenty years. I know it's quite unusual.
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...founders, your founders. Right? Your portfolio committees is showing them things they never even realized was possible. So Yeah. The last time the two of us talked, you told me that one of the things that's, you know, you think is different about you
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we're fine to give it to you. We trust you. But if you spend all this money on this project, you got to cover your own rent for the next few years at uni. So I thought about it for a couple of seconds, and I was, okay, let's do it. Give me the cash.
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...and they have a great network, and they know every founder,
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...were gonna be a founder young? And I I brought this one out. I could just see him getting so excited. And I it's so it's so funny, but I I think that these kind of stories are really common. So for me, going all the way back to high school, I would l
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Well, venture funding came a little bit later. We had privilege that we had built in previous years before on quite good connections. Switzerland is small, so we had good friends who were able together with us to put a little bit of money into that s
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