Sarah Tavel

no it was you know I was lucky because I was working with Jeremy Levine and so he at that point I mean he had already done I think LinkedIn and Yelp and so he understood he had the standing yeah yeah and so generally Conte it was our 'full yeah and that was actually the thesis which was that we had had a bessemer a lot of success with user-generated sites yelp LinkedIn in social commerce was one of those spaces where I you know we had also done a bunch of companies in the commerce space diapers.

this shows the the real opportunity for having people different than a bunch of white leads from Stanford it was they didn't see it did they it was the moment I realized like it was it was the last first moment that I realized that being a woman could be an edge you know because like an adventurer you're always looking for an unfit your own unfair advantage and your unfair advantage can come from the operating experience you had where you really understand a space it can come from just diving de

I feel that with Pinterest I mean when I when I was you know we did the series a for Pinterest when I was at Bessemer and I yes and it was for an image board it was a yes it was a very you know it's a four or five person company at the time like it was it was misunderstood by everybody in the valley like we you know I was an early user of the product I just loved it from the first time I used the product and and I loved it so much and I just was watching it on you know Alexa tracker which was th

I had just neva had just given me the URL of Angel Co / Jason slash syndicate hey so check this out and I said what's a syndicate and he said well and he explained it to me like SPV and I'm like what's an SP v how does that work I was like alright well I'll just tweet it so I tweeted it and like 300 people join my syndicate and then I told Alex of commas like have the syndicate I'll put 50k in the round from my little ten million dollar Micro Fund that's me and my poker buddies and friends and I

like with Alex and Michael from comm it's just like mm-hmm really all right yeah I'm like wait that's the monthly number of the quarterly number that's the monthly number that that's a month wait there's more money in the bank account this month and there was last month we're not we have not let's heard of that I'm like wait a second we're building up a war chest night but that was only for Apple like what is going on here I'm for calm yeah they've done an amazing job

they said to me later you know we were gonna shut the company down if we didn't close that syndicate with me and the fact that it over performed and we got that money it was the reason comp still here