Einar Volsett

God, there were so many bad ideas that I'm not going to take equity for these terrible ideas.

Yeah.

And actually that's,

if you look at it mathematically, that's actually not a terrible idea.

Um, but, uh, the, the funny thing about that is like, keep in mind, like the kind of companies that I was like, a venture studio is more like, we're going to build an idea and then take a slice or whatever.

I think, um, the companies are coming to me.

They were already YC companies.

Usually they were already funded by C post funded YC companies.

And so they were wise to how, how expensive equity was.

So they weren't just going to dish it out to somebody for building their iPhone.

That just wasn't going to happen.

The biggest one.

What's up here?

Probably the biggest ones that we did are listed here is the one on top left hike.

So hike is a large social network.

We didn't build it.

We just helped work on it for a while.

And then it has more than a hundred million users in India, but nobody ever hears of it outside of India.

How did I meet them?

I think one of their execs used to work at Motorola when he got acquired by Google.