Adam Saven
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So that was, uh, shut doors like middle of 2015.
At that point, our investors were like, well, it's not really worth you giving us our money back.
Do you have any other ideas in you?
Um, and yeah, I just started grinding back and, uh, that was turnaround.
Okay, that's way less than the... We had 10 or 20K left in the bank.
When we closed Stanford, we had our initial convertible notes at 500K.
We were down to 20K in the bank.
18 here in SF.
We've got an offshore team in India, 14.
They're great.
I'm really lucky.
One of our early engineers was a guy named Niden.
Very well experienced.
And he was our first... He was a full-time engineer for us.
And he just...
I mean, that's actually funny.
He said, Hey, I've got a, I actually have a brother who's also looking for a job.
I can definitely vouch for him.
All of a sudden we had knitted into cash to brothers.
Um, and next thing we knew it, we were making trips out there and we knew they had the capability to, to lead and build a team out there.