Steve Benson

And the company's probably making like $200,000.

280k a year ish it's like 25 grand a month ish and uh and and we had four four mouths to feed i wasn't feeding myself i was just living on peanut butter but uh and my co-founder was leaving because he's a really smart guy and was like he's in private equity um

And he was like, this thing is just not going to go anywhere, man.

This thing is just toast.

It's just, you know, we're not going to work.

We should just throw in the towel.

I'm going to go.

I'm going to go work in private equity again.

Turns out it's a much better job.

I didn't say I recommended starting a software company at all.

I never said I recommend if you can get the million dollar a year job in private equity, go do that.

Go do it.

It's so much easier.

It's an easier life.

Um, but, uh, so he, he was out the door and, uh, and I had these, you know, four employees.

One of them, I was having spent half his time, like do like consulting stuff.

And that was me.

So we were making ends meet.

And then I got this $300,000 deal I'd been working on for a long time.

And the, I guess the question here is how do you get a, uh,