There was a huge storm in May of ’95… we had to go rent a power generator and take turns filling it with diesel fuel… we had meetings by candlelight with a bunch of prominent companies. We were trying to convince them, ‘Oh, yeah, we’re a real business,’ when you say, ‘Hold on, I gotta go fill up the tank.’

~ Tim Brady in “Founders at Work”

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