Jeff Seibert
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Podcast Appearances
That's amazing.
So yeah, huge props to box and Aaron for doing that.
Um, and ended up, of course, the side project game steam got more interesting.
Um, and so ended up giving box of many months of notice, had a smooth transition out and then started working on cross ethics full time.
Aaron did join as an advisor after the seed round, which was great.
But yeah, we ended up, because we're in Boston, we wanted to really raise from the local ecosystem.
And so we got a group of 10 Boston Angels to seed it, which was fantastic, as well as a local firm there called Flybridge Capital.
It was, yeah, we raised one on five.
That's exactly it.
Oh, okay, good.
That's great.
And so, yeah, that worked well, of course, again, in today's language, like crazy different world.
But we were very happy with it and we ended up building the team.
And then it was a very quick story, basically 14 months from launch to being acquired by Twitter.
Oh, man.
Ancient history.
I think around 18 or so.
We had zero revenue.
The product was free.
Of course, of course.