Blake Scholl
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I never got to fly on it.
Why?
It's a $20,000 ticket.
That was for royalty and rock stars.
And I don't have anything against private jets.
I think they should exist.
I think we should have supersonic private jets.
But the big problem with Concorde was it wasn't affordable.
And so meanwhile, I'd had this experience of starting my first company and selling it to Groupon.
So I'd been at Amazon, so I thought I knew e-commerce.
And then I'd been at this other startup that was building mobile apps, so I thought I knew mobile.
And what everyone tells you is you should work on what you're good at, and so I thought I should work on mobile e-commerce.
And so I end up...
I can't say this with a straight face.
I built a mobile barcode scanning game.
And it's the least important thing I could possibly work on.
And yet, there's no such thing as an easy startup.
I was worried I'd lose all the investors' money.
I was, at times, super depressed.
And I'd wake up and think like, why did I get into this?