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[215.74 --> 222.96] love working on it and we're growing for how deep we've set the plow i'm pretty encouraged by our |
[222.96 --> 229.06] growth um when i compare myself to others i get discouraged but when i look at get up itself and |
[229.06 --> 233.90] realize that it's something i still believe in and love doing uh you know that i'm encouraged so |
[233.90 --> 238.84] you know the short answer is yes we're we're moving ahead full steam ahead on get it so chad for |
[238.84 --> 243.20] those of us who weren't around last may i think that was episode 87 if anyone wants to go back and |
[243.20 --> 250.08] listen can you just give us briefly the get up uh elevator pitch yes get it is a way to give money |
[250.08 --> 257.48] every week to people and teams you believe in so the mission of get it is actually to enable an |
[257.48 --> 264.36] economy of gratitude and generosity uh and practically what that means the way we're instantiating that is |
[264.36 --> 268.56] giving money every week to people you believe in right so you're using somebody's open |
[268.56 --> 272.90] source libraries and you really appreciate the work that you're that they're doing and you want |
[272.90 --> 277.50] to show your appreciation and gratitude and you want to support them get up as a way to do that |
[277.50 --> 283.60] uh by setting up a weekly recurring donation to them as small as a penny up to a hundred dollars a week |
[283.60 --> 289.30] and it's a no strings attached gift that's uh that's one of the that that's where get it is on the scale |
[289.30 --> 295.80] of crowdfunding from like investment through you know kickstarter i'm getting a sticker i'm getting a |
[295.80 --> 301.08] product you know get it is on the far end where this is really uh this is really a gift so you |
[301.08 --> 304.74] don't tell them i'm funding you towards this goal and as long as you're working on that goal |
[304.74 --> 310.56] yeah exactly it's really like a patronage model it's like i believe in the work you do and i want |
[310.56 --> 313.80] you to do more of it you know i trust that you're going to take this money and you're going to do |
[313.80 --> 319.22] awesome stuff with it you know so it's really trying to yeah trying to dial in on that like i believe |
[319.22 --> 324.48] in you keep doing awesome stuff right uh yeah so that's what that's what that's what we're doing |
[324.48 --> 331.18] and we've been um so i guess to uh to recap where we're at we've got we're coming up on 3 000 active |
[331.18 --> 337.48] users and i guess we could check so it was a year ago was it yeah let's check our charts real quick |
[337.48 --> 343.30] most of the day yeah okay so we've got uh let's check the charts real quick so right now we've got |
[343.30 --> 350.48] 28 000 or you know 2 887 so we're coming up on 3 000 weekly users that's people who either give or |
[350.48 --> 359.84] receive or both on the site and we moved uh 13 400 you what was it yesterday so we're up over 13 000 |
[359.84 --> 365.40] let's go back let's dial it back a year um so that would be week 50 i'm looking at the |
[365.40 --> 373.90] get it.com slash about slash charts html and two years or a year ago we were at 1 000 users |
[373.90 --> 382.40] and what about three thousand dollars wow yes so we've grown we've grown it looks like uh 1800 users |
[382.40 --> 388.60] so you know almost 200 and then uh and it looks like a thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars we've |
[388.60 --> 394.56] grown ten thousand dollars which would be what quickly uh you know 4x 5x over a year ago you know so |
[394.56 --> 400.12] that's not nothing um that's huge man i mean it's not quite a hockey stick but like i said for as |
[400.12 --> 404.48] deep as we set the plow i'm i'm pretty encouraged for where we're at so i'm looking at these charts |
[404.48 --> 409.94] here on your slash about slash charts you have a withdrawal it looks like the weekly gifts like |
[409.94 --> 415.58] you said is 13 444 and your withdrawals is at 78 60 so the rest is that differential just what's |
[415.58 --> 420.44] being traded inside of get up or not traded but given escrowed yeah we would say escrowed inside of |
[420.44 --> 426.44] get it so yeah get up is like this bubble within or this loop or this uh circle within the larger |
[426.44 --> 431.54] economy right so you move money into get it uh you shuffle it around inside of get it and then |
[431.54 --> 436.30] you pull it out the other side uh right so there is an amount of money which is actually if you click |
[436.30 --> 441.72] on the stats link that's at the top of that page i think we're at like 100k escrowed within get it right |
[441.72 --> 449.12] now something like that it's kind of a little over 100k escrowed and get it yeah so you know we we |
[449.12 --> 457.02] doubled we doubled three times last year uh every four or five months and then looking at these charts |
[457.02 --> 461.86] we've kind of slowed the past month or two but i don't know it's it's hard to read these things |
[461.86 --> 466.80] sometimes but yeah the the past the past month or two it's started to flatten a little bit and |
[466.80 --> 471.92] kind of scratch our head a little bit about that i mean the way the way i'm seeing it is that last |
[471.92 --> 478.68] year okay so the for the first for the first year 2012 started the middle of the year and the name of |
[478.68 --> 484.42] the game was you know we came out of the gate pretty fast it was encouraging and then it was all about |
[484.42 --> 489.66] transitioning from uh working on get it as a side project to me personally working on a full-time |
[489.66 --> 495.72] that was 2012 so by the end of 2012 i was working on get it full-time so when i talked to you guys last |
[495.72 --> 501.88] year uh in may there's no transition yeah well i i i pretty much transitioned into get it full-time |
[501.88 --> 509.54] but then the challenge in in 2013 was let's go from just chad working on it to a team working on it |
[509.54 --> 517.40] right because you know you know zuckerberg isn't the only one working on facebook right um you know it |
[517.40 --> 522.96] it takes a team to build a product right and that's no different for an open product than for anything |
[522.96 --> 527.86] else or any other company uh you know so that was that was really the name of the game in 2013 was |
[527.86 --> 532.98] let's go from just chad you know i'm not building get it i'm building a team that's building get it |
[532.98 --> 537.08] is something that i think i think kenneth wasn't kenneth on the call last year i believe so yeah |
[537.08 --> 541.72] yeah he was he brought up that quote i'd put out there that yeah this year we're you know i'm not |
[541.72 --> 546.10] building get it i'm building a team that's building get it and so that's what 2013 was about |
[546.10 --> 555.78] and it worked um in january of this year so january 2014 we had our first annual get it company retreat |
[555.78 --> 562.06] which i hosted here at my house in pittsburgh outside of pittsburgh during the polar vortex |
[562.06 --> 568.04] so nice time the middle is yeah exactly it's more of a winter we um we convinced we had a dozen |
[568.04 --> 574.10] people fly in uh is that your team 12 people that's the that's the folks that traveled to pittsburgh |
[574.10 --> 580.28] right so we had a wider team because i mean it's like any open source project you've got uh you've |
[580.28 --> 583.86] you've got a core of people that are really committed and then you've got this much wider |
[583.86 --> 589.30] cloud of people that are interested you know it's a long tail right it's like so i think at that point |
[589.30 --> 596.68] we probably had 60 or 70 people quote unquote on the team uh which specifically means that they're |
[596.68 --> 603.86] uh they are they're listed on the team on get it get it is funded on get it and we have this |
[603.86 --> 608.96] team's feature where when you give money to get it the question is how do we split that so we split |
[608.96 --> 614.58] that 70 ways and so those 70 people are are kind of our wider our wider base and then out of that 70 |
[614.58 --> 622.58] people a dozen of them came to pittsburgh uh for our meetup in january um yeah so you know that was |
[622.58 --> 627.26] that was kind of a that was a milestone for us that was a success right like yes we've got a team this |
[627.26 --> 632.24] is real you know my wife's like wait there's people besides you that are working on get it right |
[632.24 --> 635.94] because like you know i do it all on the internet you wouldn't see it in real life right it's like |
[635.94 --> 642.16] here's all these people in my house all of a sudden um you know chad yeah they're real |
[642.16 --> 648.30] besides chad yeah people believe in this besides chad yes exactly i've always wondered at what your |
[648.30 --> 653.38] wife thinks of it because um you're really public so last year we kind of made fun of you in some degree |
[653.38 --> 660.88] for sharing your address and your uh phone number and you know the security issues that may come up from |
[660.88 --> 667.60] that especially as you get more and more infamous with i mean and to some degree you're pretty open |
[667.60 --> 675.00] about your very opinionated ways and some don't agree with you right yeah absolutely um yeah i mean |
[675.00 --> 682.22] there haven't been any disasters as far as that goes this past year knock on wood i guess uh yeah i mean |
[682.22 --> 689.58] look there's risks in life you know and yeah you can be you know i always think of the nickel mine uh |
[689.58 --> 693.98] wasn't that the the amish shooting wasn't that nickel mine pennsylvania or whatever right it's like |
[693.98 --> 697.90] you can be amish you can be living out in the countryside you know totally disconnected like |
[697.90 --> 704.66] not sharing you know like the least uh connected in public person right all right and still some |
[704.66 --> 708.98] nut job is going to bring a gun into your school and shoot all your kids you know so it's not like i |
[708.98 --> 715.90] don't know i'm not a statistician by training but i don't know i i don't think |
[715.90 --> 724.24] my gut says it's not safer uh than not right it's like there what are the chances of of having uh you |
[724.24 --> 729.94] know having somebody do you harm you know what what what causes that what makes you more likely to |
[729.94 --> 737.88] to be hurt than not um and you know this is this is a point at which i need to pause uh in the light of |
[737.88 --> 745.78] a conversation i've especially been having last night i mean there you know i'm a rich white male |
[745.78 --> 753.26] i enjoy lots of privilege and that's uh that's my experience of being open on the internet |
[753.26 --> 765.18] is absolutely what's the word uh shaped uh by by that right um you know if there's this man we're |
[765.18 --> 769.80] getting in deep right off the bat so one of the things happened one of the one of the unexpected |
[769.80 --> 775.00] turn of events over the past year is that get up is for activists right like we came out of the gate |
[775.00 --> 779.52] and we're like get up is for open source and we're going to fund open source on get up and we're doing |
[779.52 --> 784.42] some of that but the the largest receivers on get up and everybody you know everybody but uh you know |
[784.42 --> 791.32] the the the top receivers board on get up is activists uh gender activists and uh feminist |
[791.32 --> 797.60] activists right uh so that that was a left turn from uh you know from my point of view it's it's it's |
[797.60 --> 802.16] kind of a head scratcher for me it's like you know all right uh cool this is one of those cases |
[802.16 --> 806.50] where it's like you know you don't know how your product's going to be used you know it's like your |
[806.50 --> 812.12] users drive your product right right and and there's always those surprises in building a product it's |
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