The Importance of Strategic Element in a Startup

My first year salary was at $50,000. I don't think I got over a hundred thousand and for probably not for the first five years. The stock obviously really grew. We were approached by lots of companies along the way. They never said if you don't sell to us, we're going to crush you. And we didn't take that kind of money. It took a long time. Do we call it all and you destroy it? We destroy it all.