Shaan Puri
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
How do you, hey, just wanted to see if you maybe would want to do something, right?
Who'd you do?
Corp dev?
Who'd you talk to?
Right.
And you said the offers at the first round were low.
Did you just have crazy expectations?
Were they not actually low?
Or were they actually low?
It's like, you know, 1x revenue or something.
What were they offering basically at that time when you thought they were too low?
Okay, wow.
So one ex-profit type of thing.
So you just politely turn them down?
What'd you say?
And by the way, did that ignite some rage in you?
Did you get a little fuel from that?
There's a moment that in Ben Horowitz's book, The Hard Thing About the Hard Things, he talks about a few like kind of key moments that happen.
It feels like when it's happening in your company, it's unique to you.
But then you read these books and you realize, oh shit, every company goes through these moments.