You hear about these companies that are going from like zero to 100 million in like two years or three years or whatever.

Like the equation is very simple from a company perspective.

I feel like I can rule the world.

I know I could be what I want to.

I put my all in it like no days off.

On a road, let's travel never look at back.

What's up?

We got my buddy I'mad here. He's the founder of Mercury, an awesome company that I use and love and is, you've created a billion dollar company. Dude, you did it. You did the thing that all of us when we were living in San Francisco and in our 20s trying to build these companies. You finally did it. How does that feel?

It's funny you say that. We raised our series B in

2021, which is actually like four months after we did our last podcast together at my first

million in January 2021. And then we're just announcing our series C, which is a 3.5 billion

valuation with Sequoia leading. But in 2021, when I

raised my round, that was at a 1.6 billion valuation. And it was so weirdly anticlimactic,

because it's like I started as an entrepreneur in 2006. So 2021, what is that? Like 15 years. So I've

been working towards this objective of like

building a unicorn company, right? Like that's, as you say, like, you, I moved her when I was like

22 and like that's all it was about for me for a long time. It was like getting this like really

successful company. And then you you hit this objective like becoming a unicorn and like nothing

changes. So I have this,

like, I have this helmet behind me, because that's like, this is from Joe Montana. He was,

he's an investor and he's a footballer. So he sent me the helmet. And that's literally the only

thing I got when I became a unicorn. I mean, obviously I had a successful company, but I keep

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