for michael, starting a business came easy. making the companies work long-term was the tricky part. an entrepreneur during the go-go internet era of the late 90s, he started t3 media, with a business partner in 1995. we had a company which built very large websites for large corporate customers. but as the company grew, michael and his business partner were seeing eye-to-eye less and less. they simply did not have the same goals as they did when they started the company four years earlier. we sort of began to disagree on the rate of growth we wanted to pursue, the way we wanted to pursue it. and i m very much a growth kind of person. i like to, you know, reach for the next opportunity. although it was bittersweet, michael left t3 media to pursue his next big idea. money was plentiful in those days, and michael had no trouble raising capital to launch his newest brainchild. so in 1999 i started a