Alex Bean
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Nuance.
Yeah.
And I'm actually... So here's... Let me give the...
Every partnership is different, right?
So like anything I give here is not going to be definitive for all.
So Blake, my partner, my friend and partner came to me with the concept of Divi, right?
And we formulated it together, but his original idea was his and the name Divi came from him.
And frankly, he had the money to kind of help kickstart some of this.
How much did he kickstart it with?
Um,
I think that's private.
Sorry.
I don't know if we've disclosed that, but it was a decent amount of his own money to say, Hey, we're going to go design and engineer and do some stuff before we went and raised formally.
So he, he had, he has more than me, right?
Clearly it was, you know, he had it.
And the advice I would give a non CEO co-founder is you have to understand where you, where you sit.
For me, I always knew Blake was the quarterback and I was the running back to use a football reference, meaning I,
We were partners and I don't think he could have done it without me, but I know I couldn't have done it without him.
And you can still be partners and not be 50-50.
I think I've seen a lot of partnerships where you go in and they are equal partners.