Ben Borodach, co-founder of April, discusses finding his co-founder and the challenges and successes of building a national tax engine.
Ben Borodach, co-founder of April, discusses finding his co-founder and the challenges and successes of building a national tax engine. He also gives advice on maximizing efficiency and balancing work with health.
So based on all those lessons learned, what did you tell yourself that you were going to do differently when it came to raising money for April? >> You know, I think the the biggest thing is you have to really set out an audacious vision and believe that you're going to be able to make it happen. I think entrepreneurship, especially one that involves venture capital, is a rule of exceptions. And all too often we try to sort of revert everybody to the mean. But the reality is that the things that work are the ones that are the exceptions. And so I think you have to be willing to take some leaps and you have to be able to enumerate those leaps. And so for us, there were a number of things that we said, "Look, we don't know if this is going to work, but here's why we believe we can make it work, and here's how we're going to know if it's