Acid & Amazon Boxes
We just raised $13 million from the founders of Zoom, Stripe and Instagram, and one of our favorite journalists wrote a behind-the-scenes account of what we’ve been up to this past year.
But more than big names and big ideas, Victoria’s personal letter (below) best captures the spirit of what we are building and why. We hope you read on…
Every time I press my phone to a reader to pay for something, I feel like my consciousness splits for a second and a phantom-me goes through the transaction in an alternate timeline. In that timeline, I’m fishing through my too-full tote bag and feel around for something wallet-shaped. Is this it? No, those are my keys… no, that’s a tampon. OK, uhh...did I forget my wallet? I start pulling things out of my bag and do some mental calculus on how to keep that tampon in the bag while I’m prying things out of it.
When we tell people we’re working on a browser, the first thing everyone asks is “Why? Does the world really need a new browser?”
