Why J-Cal Invested to 200K in a former Employee | E2249
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And we met, started to work for me, crushed it for me for five, six years. Then he said, I want to do my own company boss. So I said, okay, get the hell out of here. And I gave him $200,000 to leave. This is what it is.
I can't fire people. I give him $200K to leave to start a company. And you know, for background, why did I invest? Well, we thought Precious smart.
He's going to figure it out. He's great at building product. He can, you know, build products on the cheap. He's not going to spend a lot of money, but he's going to get product velocity. So we have a founder we trust who has product velocity, who has great product shops, who has world-class design.
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