In L.A., people trust one guy with their pricey supercars
A lot of founders start companies because they want to build. Others start them because they get tired of waiting around inside systems they don’t control. Elrod sounds like the second kind.
The Good Pizza guy
“I went to investors,” he says. “No, no, no, no, no. Always no.”
At the time, he thought they were wrong.
“I said, what asshole, all these people,” he says, laughing.
Women founders and the question of capital
Women-led startups produced seventy-eight cents in revenue for every dollar of funding, compared with thirty-one cents generated by male-founded companies. In venture capital terms, that kind of capital efficiency usually earns admiration.
Purpose through pain
That is the backdrop to Lily’s Lighthouse, the nonprofit Sarah Kate founded to fund research into mushroom therapies for epilepsy. But the story does not begin with a nonprofit. It begins with a mother.