Jules Hill

Not a lot when I joined.

Cellbreaker had raised about 50K when I...

decided to kind of join full time.

Cellbreaker was my first experience in entrepreneurship.

I was actually at an incubator in Durham, North Carolina, where as an intern for the incubator and Cellbreaker came through the incubator and that's sort of how I got connected.

That was while I was still in undergrad.

And when I graduated, they had raised a little bit of money, like I mentioned, and I decided to sort of take the dive and join them full time.

I did get equity.

I did get pay.

It was not...

what everybody hears about graduating from one of the top five business schools in the country, seeing all my friends and colleagues and classmates go off to get these offers.

It was definitely a tough decision.

But I think the way I thought about it that really sort of, I think, was the best way to think about it for me was thinking what's the worst that could happen and really thinking about the answer to that question and then thinking what's the best that could happen and really thinking about the answer to that question.

And for me, I just saw a lot of downside, obviously, but it was early enough in my career that I'm sure I could bounce back if things went wrong, and I saw a lot of upside.

with around 20,000 a year.

Um, and I had also just bought a house.

So the timing was very, uh, it was really down to the wire.

I bought a, I bought an old house to sort of an investment move as well.

Um, but so I basically took the least amount that I could take in order to, with the help of some of my savings, just sort of make it on a month to month basis.

Uh, and so that's what that looks like.