Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Erik: How has your passion for doing sort term sprint projects played out as you’ve
built your own company.
Joe: The thing that has really changed and that has surprised me is when I first started
SimpleGeo, I was like, “Well, I’m going to come here. I’m an early stage guy. I
probably won’t fit in very well once we raise like a big round and decide to go big
and what not.” So, the thing that has surprised me is that as I’ve gotten further into it
and as we get closer to what I thought would be the end game, is that there is a whole
new set of challenges and it basically rolls and comes in phases. Where as in the me from
two years ago that just started SimpleGeo would probably say, “By the series B, that
will probably my clean exit point.” And now we’re getting real close to probably
raising a series B and potentially over the next six months. And if that does happen I
want to stay another year because I have a whole new set of goals. And it’s uh… where
as in I think before my normal thing would be to come in, fix the stuff and work the
things I wanted to and once I kind of hit that finish line, look for something else
and move on. Now, quite frankly, you know I started it, my name is attached to it in
a fairly significant way, I have a pretty large, obviously, equity stake in the company
and so it’s constantly changing. SimpleGeo is completely a different company in every
way, shape and form than it was six months ago and it’s going to be, again, a completely
different company six months from now. So, it’s kept me engaged in a way that I probably
wasn’t expecting.