I'm not doing this for money.

I do think it'll be phenomenally financially successful, but frankly, like leaving the job

in private equity makes no economic sense.

You're just almost guaranteed a massive amount of money.

So I had already made the decision that I wasn't doing Circle Up for money, even if it turns out.

So what am I doing it for?

I'm doing it to help other people.

But if it's at the cost of like my daughter seeing her dad unhappy,

what is the lesson that that teaches her?

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We got to grow faster. Minimum is 100% over the past several years.

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When I saw the company, it was not cool to raise.

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