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They Quit Google to Bet Everything on One Domain
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They quit Google to build OnMe.com.
Derek Meaney left a Google project management role, and his co-founder also left Google, to build OnMe.com. He shares the journey of raising capital and betting on the right domain name.
In this video
Choose a chapter to jump ahead- 00:00Intro
- 04:15What it’s actually like to work at Google from the inside
- 10:30The hidden Google Flights feature most people have never found
- 16:00The moment Derek handed back his laptop and badge in Switzerland
- 22:45How two ex-Googlers met over coffee in New York and decided to build together
- 30:10Raising nearly $2M from Mastercard with no prior fundraising experience
- 38:20Why OnMe.com beat every other name on the spreadsheet
- 46:00The hyphen war, the domain negotiation, and why a clean .com still wins
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