“My very first day on the job, they said, 'We made an investment in this company, can you call capital from our LPs?' I didn't even have an email yet, so I used my personal Gmail. I send this notice to like 50 LPs saying, 'Wire me a million dollars.' I immediately get an email back from one of them: 'Who are you? Why are you sending me this email?' He calls Mark and Ben and says somebody's impersonating you guys.”

It was interesting. So let me give you the backstory if I can. So we had sold our last company to Hewlett-Packard, right? So we sold in 2007 and a bunch of us had basically indentured servitude to HP for, you know, 12 to 18 months. And then the summer of 08, and remind you, right, you know your history, right? So in March of 08, basically Bear Stearns disappears, right? So it's summer of 08, and Mark and Ben are like, yeah, we're going to do this. They've been doing angel investing for a long time with their own money. And they said, look, it'd be a lot more fun if we institutionalized this and went out and raised money. We were literally having this conversation summer of 08. And then September of 08, of course, Lehman goes bankrupt like overnight. And so the world seems to be coming to an end. So I go home one day to my wife. I'm like, good news. I'm going to quit my job at HP, which is probably the most stable job you have, and join these two guys. And we were actually living in North Carolina at the time because we had acquired our business out there. And Ben and Mark had asked me to go move out to run it. So I was already, I was, you know, not in California even anymore. So it took me a…