Tom Digan

So everyone's working from home other than

Greg, myself, and Johnny.

The mornings were for the messy stuff.

It was figuring out how to untangle some of the situations we found ourselves in, debt collectors, and actually just trying to fix things so we can move forward.

In the afternoons, we're actually building product and Greg's focused on winding the team up and iterating on what we're about to build and launch a few months later.

We're raising money at any moment during that.

I'm spending every moment redialing people that are already investors and reaching out to new people.

What I remember most, though, about those days, because it was hard, but it was also so exciting.

And I think about at night at 10 o'clock, we had finished.

The whole world has stopped.

Everyone's at home.

We've been in the office grinding since 6 a.m.

And at 10 o'clock, it would be like, all right, whatever win we had that day, let's celebrate.

And it was like, you've seen that scene in Goodfellas when they're all in prison.

And when wise guys go to prison, it's not like everyone else.

They got lobsters coming.

Coming in and slicing the garlic, slicing the garlic with the little razor blade for us, our version of that, we're cooking steaks on the grill.

We're smoking cigars in the office because no one else is coming in.

I'm shaking martinis up there and we're high-fiving about raising $10,000 checks.

That was exciting because frankly, it felt more like the startups that were romanticized by the podcasts and books and all the fun stuff.