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…But you had five engineers that were part of your team even before you had landed on the idea for Convoy, right? Talk us through how you thought about that. I learned about this back when I was trying to get the job at Skydeck. I have a strong technical background, I know a lot about developing software now, but I’m not a software engineer. I realized, at least in my perspective (and some of the investors in New York can decide if this is right or wrong), as I was trying to get seed funding, what I learned and felt early on was, you have to check three boxes. You have to have an idea that they can at least understand and believe this compelling and believe it has the right dynamics that you could return on the investment. Can be that kind of an idea. The second is, you have to be a personality, an individual that is compelling to them. A big part of that is they want to believe that you’re going to do the work, you’re going to hustle, you’re going to commit to it, you’re going to get it done, you’re going to be smart and thoughtful about your approach, and you have to convince hundreds of other people over the next few years that what you’re doing is worth it. This is cool. I’ve never heard you talk about this before. Many entrepreneurs can check boxes one and two.…

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