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I’d love to sit here telling you that being a CEO was great, and it was great. Truly, truly great. However, I’d be lying if I told you there was only one feeling I had being CEO.
There were times I felt immense pride:
There are two moments that stand out to me:
A. The moment we got funded.
I was in the kitchen of my house on the phone with Marcia, our lawyer. The first chunk of funding from one of our investors was deposited into our account.
Then, a bit later, the second slug from our other investor was deposited into our account.
It was an unbelievable moment. We had been raising money for over two years. We had survived the Great Recession. We had survived 63 investors passing on us. Now, finally, we were going to be able to start our company.
B. The moment I knew we had arrived.
I remember that moment like it just happened. I was just finishing a meeting in our large conference room. I walked out of the room with my guest, and I heard this low roar of people talking.
I knew that roar because I had experienced it before. That roar was the buzz, the energy of a team of people working really well together.
