David, how did you become a startup entrepreneur?
When I was in university was when I was first was interested in startups. I had two companies that I started. The first one was an on-demand shipping and storage company. This was in 2005, so about ten years ago. Basically students can look to have movers come and store or ship all their belongings to their hometown or to a storage facility. We started at one school and ended up expanding into around nine schools. At the peak we had around 80 people working on it and I was still in college and we did Facebook marketing for the first time, just one year after Facebook launched. The second business that I had was collecting textbooks from different colleges and selling them to underclassmen, because textbooks are very expensive in the U.S.
Is that when you start to get into e-commerce?
Yeah, at the beginning we sell it physically but we decided that.. why don’t we try Ebay? And in a few months we sold everything on Ebay – that was my first experience.