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Ryan Hanley

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Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

What does that process from start to finish look like?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

And how do you navigate that?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

This probably isn't the right follow-up question, but it's where my brain goes.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Did that push you into looking at other e-commerce verticals?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Did you get that all of a sudden, oh, hey, there's an opportunity, and then you start snowballing into those?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Or did that feel like a one-off opportunity in terms of it's vertical because of the space and the timing, etc.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

So a company like Chewy that comes in, you said they're doing 25 million when you made the investment.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

They looking for, was that just financial and then you sit on a board?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Are they looking for guidance, support, help?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

When you're at that size, what are you looking for out of the investors that come in?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Like if they already got the team mostly in place and your job is really just to kind of follow along and maybe just be a fiduciary as far as a board member, et cetera, or an investor, but, or are they still at that point looking for you?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Hey, can you make a connection here?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Do you have any expertise here, et cetera?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

But I think for you guys listening at home, one of the big takeaways from there is think about this.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Chewy's $25 million in revenue, right?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

And you're saying they don't have everything bilked out.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

They don't have everything.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

You know, every system's not.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

No.