Erik: How has your ambitions changed now that you’re working fulltime one your company?
Dan: Putting all the eggs in one basket makes a big difference man, you know? [laughs]
When I wake up in the morning, when I was doing consulting I had four, five things on my plate and I really kept a to do list that was very structured, now I wake up every morning in an excited panic [laughs] cause this is my entire life and I don’t care if it’s Saturday, Sunday or a holiday or whatever I’m waking up and that’s all I can think about and that’s all I can do, it’s that changes when you have all of your life tied up in one thing, that changes how much you want out of that thing and for me it’s just… it keeps growing bigger, which is probably a little unhealthy but I think it’s part of the entrepreneurial path.
Erik: When you think about ambition and how that relates to impact, where were you before with you’re goals for impact and where are you now?
Dan: They’ve increased a lot. So, for example one of things we’re doing now is we’re working with local schools and we are – they’re getting out the message for us to go to the website and in exchange we give them a percentage of the fundraiser. So, our user acquisition channel is to go through school systems, they get the word they keep money as a fundraiser, we get the users and we make a certain percentage of the revenue. That system works really well but it’s also just changed the way the way I think about the business, I mean I think our business can be really improving the lives of kids, you know? And improving our sort of broken education system. So, yeah. I mean the ambition for the company started as helping people connect with each other in a neighborhood and then grew to helping local communities connect and now it’s helping local communities be better, you know, really making better places to live and so I think it… has grown and it probably – and hoping it will still continue to grow.
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