Why J-Cal Invested to 200K in a former Employee | E2249

And we met, started to work for me, crushed it for me for five, six years. Then he said, I wanna do my own company, boss. 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 200 k to leave, to start a company. And, you know, for background, why did I invest? Well, we thought Precious Smart. He's gonna figure it out. He's great at building product. He can, you know, build products on the cheap. He's not gonna spend a lot of money, but he's gonna get product velocity. So we have a a founder we trust who has product velocity, who has great product chops, who has world class design. That was enough for us to make the bet, frankly. And we also had seen ToneBase, a musical app, STEEZY, a dance app, Musician, another music app, but not classical like Tomis. And, of course, Calm and FitBOD. We had seen five different health apps do really well. We thought, hey. This could work. This Week in Startups is brought to you by Squarespace. Turn your idea into a beautiful website. Go to squarespace.com/twist for a free trial. When you're ready to launch, use offer code twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Luma AI. Stop guessing and start directing with Ray three Modify from Luma AI, the AI powered post production tool. Explore it at lumalabs.ai/twist and NetSuite. The business landscape is very chaotic right now. That's why you need NetSuite by Oracle. Get the free business guide to demystifying AI at netsuite.com/twist. Alright, everybody. Welcome back to this week in startups. Presh Dinesh Kumar worked for me for many years. How did I meet Presh? Presh was, a fan of this very podcast, and he emailed me when he was in college. I think he was 18 years old. And he said, hey. I wanna come work for you. I said, okay. That's nice. And then he said, oh, no. No. I'm serious. I'm serious. I'm serious. And he wouldn't stop emailing me. So I said, what are your skills? And then I looked, and he was great at doing social media. I said, okay, kid. Come to California. You work for me now. Come to the Blade Runner '20 forty nine screening. And we met, started to work for me, crushed it for me for five, six years. Then he said, I wanna do my own company, boss. I said, okay. Get the hell out of here. And I gave him I don't know. What did I give you? $2.50? 200. I gave him $200,000 to leave. This is what it is. I can't fire people. I give them 200 k to leave, to start a company. Precious, I want you to tell everybody all about the company and the amazing progress you've made. There's a lot of lessons here …