Guys today we have the cameo co-founder and CEO Steven Galanis. He's built an awesome

platform, raised a bunch of money, company is super super valuable. He is backed by some

of the best venture capitalists in the world and he dropped a ton of knowledge. So hope

you guys enjoy this one.

All right. So Steven, let's just start with you kind of telling your story about what

you did before you started cameo and the kind of what the idea was to start the business.

I was an entrepreneur so I went to college at Duke. You know I'm a little older than you

Bryce, but I was the first grade of person who had Facebook access in high school. So

back when I was a kid you had to have a.edu address to even join Facebook. So it was this

like really interesting thing that you got once you were in college and I ended up starting

a Facebook group with one of my best friends who's a guy named Zach Merida, who's the captain

of football team at Duke. He was a senior when I was a freshman and we started throwing

parties. So we actually started throwing like non-affiliated like it was a big frat scene

there. We were both in frats when we found like my frat the Delta 6 wouldn't show up

to his frat the DTV parties. So we decided hey if Steven and Zach just came together and

built the throwing group we could take over like the biggest bar on campus throw unaffiliated

parties and more people would come and that ended up being pretty successful. We ended

up having 17,000 college students in the group. We were throwing about 17 events a week.

I was making crazy money all in cash back then and there were probably some things I

wish I'd bought back then versus the things I actually spent my money on. But it was a

pretty sweet gig after college. I was an options trader so I spent five years trading

and on the floor of the Chicago board of trade. So if you ever watched CNBC and you see

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