BARK: Matt Meeker

You've got a tr uh uh big task ahead of you because You know, this is a a a business that you launched and at the end of twenty eleven. There was massive, rapid growth. You s you know, you saw it go public. And I'm sure this is you know, not fun to be reminded of, but still was and is not profitable.

So that year ending March thirty first, we burned A hundred and ninety four million dollars. And If we had done that. For the next twelve months, that would have been it. We're done.

We're gone. So the immediate challenge is Do everything possible to keep this thing alive and floating and Don't die. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. They built.

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