Alex Kilka

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

so we do a combination of like data analysis diving into people's like survey results trying to figure out what our customers actually complaining about using natural language processing we also do like optical image recognition and we're working on some other technologies for like a coffee company specifically we got some interesting logistics problems and so we're trying to

Figure out what's emerging out there and what can we piece together to solve their solutions in a way that's simpler and more scalable than what they've had in the past.

Exactly.

Um, well, I was originally in consulting and then, um, I left, uh, you know, work on a lifestyle project, um, which I think is what you want to talk about a little bit.

Um, sure.

So, um, you know, life as a consultant, um, you know, right out of graduate school was not very, um, fulfilling.

It was a lot of work, a lot of travel, um, something I decided I didn't want to do full term, full time, um, or longterm.

But, um,

Through that process, I met some interesting people.

And one of the people I met told me this story.

He was selling some Beats headphones that he had gotten as a gift.

And he looked on Amazon and they're going for maybe $300.

He looked on eBay, they're going for like $250.

And so he sold his pair on Amazon.

And interestingly enough, he decided to leave up that listing and he kept selling more and more pairs.

And you just go over to eBay and type in the address if you ever bought it from him and shipped it directly to them and started pocketing this difference.

Yeah, I mean, I don't remember the exact numbers, but that was the gist of it.

That's funny.

Which I thought, wow, this is, you know, what an interesting idea.