Will Schroter

I think there were some in the middle that kind of, you know, never got out of the nest.

But those were ones that started to get some level of traction and had, you know, dedicated staff.

We didn't really make much off that.

That was just, that was interesting learning.

That was me and Jamie Siminoff who started Ring.

And it was an idea I had for a long time.

Jamie and another guy, Josh, wanted to go in and start it.

But I was busy doing too many other things.

And we raised some money.

Jamie was leading it, doing as much as he could.

Obviously, he's a great CEO.

Look what he did with Ring.

But it just couldn't really get escape velocity.

And then we ended up selling it to a company called Trusted Idea.

Virtucon Ventures was essentially what I renamed NGDA.

uh, back from 95 to be my holding company.

Um, in all of these things.

So BirchCon is really just been, uh, my holding company entity for everything that I own.

Okay, so startups.com, as I mentioned, just to kind of give it context, carries people from the idea stage all the way through launch.

So there's a lot of points people get stuck.