Alex Bean
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Podcast Appearances
Like, can you come in and build this thing?
And, you know, at the time we were, we thought we were going to like take over the X games and take over skateboarding.
So you kind of thought big, but we did some fun stuff, learned a lot about manufacturing and branding and,
He got healthy.
So that's when I gave it back to him and then got into tech.
So learned a lot, a lot of fun, but definitely different than FinTech for sure.
So tell the Divi, if you had Divi when you were running that business, like what sort of credit lines would you have been pulling?
What sort of expense management would you have been doing?
Like sort of explain the current product as how you would have used it back then.
Yeah, but it's funny because you might say like, well, how'd you go from selling scooter parts to doing Divvy?
And to me, I'm actually, it's super natural because, you know, when I'm running Lucky, which was the scooter company, we had 10 riders all over the world traveling for various tournaments, you know, building content.
We would do trade shows.
And so I would send seven guys to Vegas on a trade show conference.
And we're a small company.
We didn't have a ton of cash.
So spending the budget of $15,000 for the conference was like impossible.
Like you can't go over, but everyone was using their own car.
We were getting expense reports, you know, a month and a half late.
So we were going over without knowing we were going over and Divi would have solved that entirely.
We, you know, we could have said, Hey, here's your budget.