Chase Jarvis

Bootstrapped for the first two years, we were wildly profitable and then we went and raised capital.

That was something I learned from my previous experiences.

We have world-class investors, A1, top of the top.

Would you raise?

We've raised $58.8 million to date.

And from folks like Greylock, Social Capital, Richard Branson, Jared Leto, Comcast.

I mean, just the top folks are, you know, are letter A and B. GSV, they focused on specific education, just absolutely tier one.

If.

I've learned to think about it as the CEO of a venture-backed company.

We're out to make a category-defining, game-changing company.

And things that get in the way of that are things that I don't love.

I have a mission and we have a vision.

uh, or sorry, we have a mission and I have a vision of trying to make this transformative experience.

I think the 120 people who go to work every day alongside me, we're trying to, to change the way that people educate themselves and, and help them live, you know, make a living in a life doing what they love.

And if at some, you know, if you're a venture backed company, you're always for sale.

There's always a number, but I have very smart investors that have a long-term vision.

And, you know, given that everything is for sale, I would never say never, but I

I'm really interested in, I would only be interested in that if things were helping propel the mission and the vision of what we want to do.

If someone's going to buy it, kill it and shut it.

This is not interesting to me because we have a vision that we see for CreativeLive and for the future of employment, education, work.