Patrick McGinnis
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He already had a lead in everything.
Oh yeah.
I mean, you know, the thing about these deals now, they're so simple, right?
I started my career as a venture capitalist,
And, you know, in the early 2000s and all the deals were, you know, it was it was not like today where you have safe notes or everything super structured.
Most of the deals I look at are pretty simple.
Right.
So go ahead.
No, I was just going to say, you know, that's just one example.
Obviously, that's a great one to talk about because it's a ridiculous example.
And, you know, that's that doesn't happen every day.
But I've had, you know, several other businesses have done similar and some have gone nowhere.
But the idea is to do a bunch of them to diversify and then over time build a real portfolio.
It is.
It is, although I have two that are close behind.
What are the other two?
I have one called Blue Smart, which is a smart suitcase company, and they went through Y Combinator.
This is a company that is started by a team out of Argentina, and they did an Indiegogo campaign to do some pre-sales, thinking they would maybe sell a couple hundred grand and did over $2 million.
Interesting.
Precisely, precisely.