01:35:32 · John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Tyler
[01:35:32] S1: Or your [01:35:33] S0: website account? Or Is it Stripe Atlas or LegalZoom? It's like totally homeless. Totally. Right? It's just like sitting across all these different service areas. Yeah. And it feels like just it's like very very obvious now. But like, WAP being just the home for your business, if it's like anything beyond eke, like the the the sort of Shopify, you know, SMB to enterprise. Yep. It's gonna intuitively make so much sense for the younger generation that's like, yeah, my company like should have a home. It should be like one place that I go and it connects to these other services and it gives me that. Like, I think the thing that's really powerful is there's so many people that wanna start a business. They maybe have a idea, maybe that idea evolves, but they don't have someone in their life that's telling them like the next thing to do. And if you just scale up that like we're telling you the next thing to do on your journey, if it's like, okay, now it's time to do advertising and then helping them do the next step, I think that it can start to snowball into these, you know, once somebody's snowballing and they're like, they make their first dollar and then they make their second sale or whatever it is, it can snowball and then people figure it out over time. But, you know, having that home and then that sort of guidance I think is gonna be super powerful. Yeah, it's gonna be a golden era. Ken Griffin this week called it the golden... [01:36:52] S1: He did? [01:36:53] S2: It's gonna
01:36:53 · Tyler, Jordi Hays, John Coogan, Steven Schwartz
[01:36:53] S2: It's gonna [01:36:53] S0: be a new golden era for entrepreneurship. Not talking about WAP, but he was just saying... [01:36:57] S1: I thought he was so blackmailed on everything, saying it's a bubble and stuff most recently. [01:37:01] S0: No. People were pulling out the super bearish headlines, but the overall take was it's gonna be a period of intense disruption. He's like every major transformation has come with some sort of bubble. Love it. But ultimately, he said it'd be a golden era for entrepreneurship and was really pushing this, like, it's a weird time to be white collar worker, it's a weird time to be a big corporate, but it's a great time to be on WAP. That's what he said. No. He just said it's a great time to lean in and learn these markets. [01:37:35] S1: Yeah, be adaptable, flexible. [01:37:37] S0: Yeah, when you're an individual or just a couple of people, it's like you have ultimate flexibility. You can literally do anything. You're not dealing with the baggage of how do we adapt to this new paradigm. [01:37:45] S1: Yeah. I have one last question. Have you ever gotten a root canal without Novocaine? [01:37:52] S9: We going to plan on doing that before our next board meeting. We have it... That's the that's the plan of attack. Okay. I'll let you know how it goes once [01:38:01] S0: Why not do the board meeting while getting a root canal without Novocaine? Like, just literally do it all. Why you need... You're so busy, dude. You need to combine all this into one meeting. Yeah.
01:38:01 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[01:38:01] S0: Why not do the board meeting while getting a root canal without Novocaine? Like, just literally do it all. Why you need... You're so busy, dude. You need to combine all this into one meeting. Yeah. [01:38:11] S1: What what what is what is the the the story with, Doug Leone from Sequoia, your relationship with him, how you met? Take us through sort of the journey because, I mean, what a legend to have on the board. As... Nova Cain aside, obviously, one of the greatest investors of all time and a real testament to the quality of the business that he would join.
01:38:35 · Steven Schwartz
[01:38:35] S9: Yeah. So, I think we've been really lucky to have some awesome investors supporting us since we began. I think that the story of this financing was that we really wanted to learn from someone who we like to spend a lot of time with. And we've gotten to know the Sequoia crew over the last few years and have seriously nothing but amazing things to say about the entire team. They're nothing short of brilliant, and Justin Matine introduced us to Doug, and Doug actually said, he's like, we can't meet. We already passed on this, and we're not really interested. Too many detractors in market, and we hashed it out a little bit, and I think it became pretty obvious that the market we serve is one of the largest markets in the world and should likely be one of the last to be commoditized by anything related to AI. And we hit it off with Doug. I think Doug is one of the most authentic, humble people that I've met in this world. And that's having the track record that he has, and I think we really, really enjoyed speaking with him. And I think a lot of people in Venture and Valley are much more consensus thinkers, and he is the... An original thinker and not afraid to be blunt, which we really appreciate. So I think we kinda just... We hit it off, and we're... Could not be more excited to be in business with with he and the rest of the Sequoia team.
01:40:05 · John Coogan, Jordi Hays
[01:40:05] S1: Well, congratulations. Love progress and milestones. It's fantastic. I mean, what what a what an amazing journey you've been on, and it's awesome to see another another win. Job's not finished, but, really, really amazing progress. [01:40:18] S0: Yeah. Great stuff, dude. [01:40:19] S1: Thank you so much for coming on the show. Great to see you. Thank you, Jordy. We'll talk to you soon. Talk soon, man. Goodbye. Let me tell you about Cisco. Critical infrastructure for the AI era. Unlock seamless real time experiences and new value with Cisco. Can I can I can I read this article from the Wall Street Journal mansion section, Jordy? [01:40:38] S0: Hit me. [01:40:39] S1: Alaska property comes with a helipad. This is a special, special property. A 147 acres with a helipad. Guess how much it's going for? They're giving it away. Just 12,500,000. Not 2,000,000. No. $12,500,000. [01:40:56] S0: No. There's that house we saw in Alaska that was, like Yeah. One of one. I think that was on, like, five acres or something. John Lautner. But it was, like, 600 k or something.
01:40:56 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan, Tyler
[01:40:56] S0: No. There's that house we saw in Alaska that was, like Yeah. One of one. I think that was on, like, five acres or something. John Lautner. But it was, like, 600 k or something. [01:41:06] S1: But this is a this is a very cool story. So, Richard Streichen lived in Alaska his whole life. The 68 year old retired commercial real estate developer was born in Fairbanks, spent time along the Bering Sea in an Eskimo village. But when it was time to settle down, he built a family compound. He chose Palmer, a small city about 40 miles from Anchorage. Surrounded by glaciers, the landscape attracted him with its grandeur. His 147 acre property has views of the glaciers, mountain ranges, and northern lights. I climbed a tree, and I saw the view potential, and that's where I decided I was gonna build, he said. Now he's looking to downsize. Streichen has listed, has decided to list the compound for 12,500,000, making it one of the most expensive homes for sale in Alaska according to Troy Dannofay Ranches. Streichen began to assemble his compound just outside the city limits in the nineties on the property, which he calls the ultimate ultimate Alaska. He built a ranch style single story main bedroom, main house with three bedrooms, a garage, a two bedroom apartment above it, and a helipad for his wife. He built vegetable gardens and an orchard. The couple I thought [01:42:13] S2: you were [01:42:13] S0: saying he built the helipad [01:42:14] S1: for your wife. I was like, [01:42:15] S0: that's amazing.