Travis Kalanick
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How weird is this?
It's crazy.
Yeah, for sure.
It was 17, but you know, you're right.
We ran an auction.
No, we just ran an auction.
What we did was every person who wanted to be involved had to fill out a sheet of how much money they put it at 10, 11, 12, 13, all the way up to 20.
And then we just did the Dutch auction.
We said, we want to clear one and a half bill.
We just did the auction and cleared it.
Went back to people and said, hey, you're not going to get it.
You have another shot.
They update their Excel sheet and it just moves the number up a little bit and then you close it down.
But yeah, it started, that round started at, I think it was nine or 10 or something like that and ended up at 17.
It used to be that that was a lot of money.
And that was unheard of at the time.
And that was, well, look, it was 10 years ago when we used to walk to school uphill both ways.
I love that one.
I love that.
I'll tell both ways.