The Startup Kids Page #3

for coffee and Adam was like,

well, this is cool, you know,

cool pitch, bla bla bla

Usually you never hear back from

them ever again but then Adam

the next day called me and he

said, hey, you want to do

a partners meeting. I didn't

even know what a partners

meeting was, at the time, you

know, what is a partners meeting

And I realized it was a very

important meeting, clearly,

because that is where they were

making the decision and the week

after that I had a term sheet

and as a nineteen year old,

sitting looking down at that

many zeros you are freaking out

because this is the most amazing

thing you have seen in your

whole life then I realized it

was my ticket, it was a very

chance thing, I got very lucky.

True Ventures's investment made

Brian able to start the company

he had dreamed about. He was 19

years old at the time which

makes him the youngest person to

ever receive funding by

a venture capital firm, beating

founder of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg by one year.

Next 6 months was very clear to

me beyond that I couldn't see

anything, but I didn't really

care because I knew we had six

months or less to prove a lot

out so it was just a race

against time to make things

happen and I was so determined

to sit down, and be like, I'm

not leaving this room until

something happens and this is

going to make the world

a completely different world in

the next few years and you are

going to help me change that and

people were there to be a part

of this vision and I couldn't

thank them more, there were lot

of very early supporters that

believed in this crazy Asian kid

and his random idea about real

rewards and virtual achievements

it is like the people who have

supported me, I thank them and

they are part of their lives

even till this day

Being an Internet entrepreneur

is hard work. The freedom of

not having a boss comes with

strings attached.

Vacations disappear into the

mist of long hours, money

problems and sleepless nights.

Bootstrapping, the art of

building a business with little

or no money, is the most common

way to start a company today.

Sometimes I get worried about

these young entrepreneurs who

spend 10 years trying to be the

next Steve Jobs or Mark

Zuckerberg and they are sitting

in a dark room coding and they

miss out of the best years of

their lives. You need to

When I was an entrepreneur and I

think still now, it was, go to

sleep after a long night of

coding you wake up late usually

because you just need to sleep.

You drink a lot of soda, eat a

lot of junk food, you don't

dress necessary that well, I

didn't dress that well, and you

kind of just work all the time

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