No One In Indiana Knew VCs Existed
“I don't think people still maybe don't know about venture capitalists, but I definitely didn't know about venture capitalists that they would just give you money.”
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is forever away. So the other piece to that though is from that point on, I started I was horrible. I started returning every birthday gift I would get. And I would take take the money, I would return it, take the money, and then I would invest it or put in my savings account because I was like, I need money to no one in Indiana. I don't think people still maybe don't know
about venture capitalists, but I definitely didn't know about venture capitalists that they would just give you money. So I thought I was going to have to self fund myself. So that was when I said, I'm going to do a startup. Now at the time, I was misguided. I thought Harvard was the best school in the world. So I said, all right, I'm going to go to Harvard. And that 's what I'm going to do.
As I got a little bit older, I realized that for me Stanford was really the best place. It combined