Matt Britton

Und das ist, was ich von dem Buch nehmen möchte.

Und das ist, was ich von dem Buch nehmen möchte.

I had no money when I started the company.

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

So MRY was originally called Mr. Youth, and it was called Mr. Youth because we were founded on the premise to help big brands target teens and college students, basically right when the internet was starting as a thing, not to date myself, but

It's the reality.

And one of the things we were doing back in the day is we had these major student rep networks.

So we had student reps for Microsoft and P&G and Coca-Cola, and we built the software to manage and measure them.

Then when bloggers, which became influencers, kind of took off, we had a lot of third-party agencies and companies asking if they could license our student rep software to manage their own blogger platforms.

So I saw a business opportunity, so I took a couple developers, put them in the corner of the office, didn't let anyone mess with them, and they essentially incubated a new company, which we spun out, which would become CrowdTap.

And we so we spun it out of the agency, raised venture capital, put in a different CEO.

I continued to build the agency and sell it.

And then when I left the agency after it was acquired, CrowdTap was kind of right there waiting there for me.

So I'd always been involved on the board, but I was obviously running another company.

So I didn't have time to run both companies like Jack Dorsey does.

So I left and I joined and it's been great, great experience so far.

So the cap table's mirrored.

So we actually did that after we had sold.

What does that mean?

So basically what happened is,