Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Before I interview them, I spend about 20 minutes just busting their chops, making sure I get as much detail as possible. And before that, Ari, Ari Desormo, our producer, spends an hour with them going through their story. And before that, Andrea Schuman goes and researches them. So we do a lot to make sure that guests are a good fit.
The thing that I don’t want to do is just stick with the highly venture-backed entrepreneurs who then end up selling their companies, because I think we end up with a very, very false sense of how business works. Those are easy to check, right? Before I had Airbnb on, I could easily confirm that everything they were going to tell me was honest and true. It’s out there.
When there’s someone who’s not an Airbnb, I think their story is maybe even more important...