Mark Abbott
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That's all I got for you.
It was all equity.
We've only had one.
So we rate all of our meetings.
It's what we teach, right?
So we rate our meetings on a scale of 1 to 10.
And so Chris and I, and then we've got another VC friend of ours who's also a coach, plus a friend of mine who runs the best Myers-Briggs teaching company in the world is on our board, and then we brought Insight, one person from Insight.
And everybody gave the meeting a nine or nine and a half, except for Insight, and they gave it an eight.
And they gave it an eight because we didn't give them all the numbers, the detailed numbers that they wanted to see.
And I'll tell you why.
It's because I thought the board meeting was the appropriate venue for them to hear our long-term vision because they'd never asked for it.
And I want to make damn sure going forward they understand why we're doing all the things that we're doing.
And so they gave us an eight.
So basically, it's a marketplace and a service that allows anyone with a healthy product to make it available for school or group fundraising.
So the purpose of FarmRaiser is to blow up the fundraising industry that usually sells pizza, cookie dough, gift wrapping paper, lots of
goods that are high the low value high cost with low profit for the causes so farm raisers trying to reinvent that model by directly connecting people with great products that we'd like to make them available for fundraisers in their community and folks needing to make money what do you mean by by fundraising so for example i mean i'm on your site now i'm in austin i see honeycomb by the austin honey company 28.29 suggested selling price so who is the person that's usually looking at this a local grocery store
No, actually it's going to be like the local PTA organizers.
So your school is going to do a fundraiser instead of asking for a cash donation, they're going to sell something.
They would normally sell a really poor product, but we're going to have them sell something grown or made in your community.
Oh, I see.