Nicholas
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Podcast Appearances
So anyway, I did that, and we did $6 million our first year, $11 million the second year.
and then we got an offer for 50 million, and John Sculley.
One five or five-oh?
Five-oh, five-oh, yeah, 50, five-zero.
I was a minority shareholder, and John said, ah, we can do much better, and I'm thinking, I'm out of here.
So I sold my shares, I did my first million, I was in my early 30s, and I doubled down on a second company,
doing online universal shopping cart.
And Goddard was asking, who has done SaaS?
I wonder if that would be called SaaS today.
It was an online, I guess it was SaaS.
Even once into it, I have an offer for $60 million.
One six or six zero.
No, six zero, I'm sorry.
I get corrections for the French accent.
Six zero, and I have 72% of the company.
So I'm about to clear $42 million, and the deal collapsed, and the dot bomb happened, and I had to shut down the company.
I did the deal with Microsoft, but I laid off 65 people.
And you sold all your pants.
And I thought, someday I'll get some pants.
So that's the story, and then I did a whole bunch of other things.