There I was at work, at my day job, which is really the graveyard shift. I call it the "day job", because it's the job I'm going to quit when my startup takes off. Or at least that was the plan with my last startup, but I'm still there, so you kinda know why.
I was working with Myra in the tele room. The telemetry room is the heart monitor room. I work at the nearby hospital on the heart floor, and the tele room is where I watch up to 48 hearts beating through the night. It's the 911 center of your heart, if you happen to be a patient. If your heart has any issues, I know about it first.
Myra was married just a few weeks ago and I had not seen her since her wedding vacation. I had only worked with her once before and I had taken a liking to her great personality right off the bat. Myra is a stunningly beautiful, twenty something woman.
So as we began our work, Myra asked me what I've been up to. She knew about my first startup, so I blurted out "I'm building a new startup." She then wanted to know about it, so I told her. I had no pitch memorized, in fact I still was trying to get the idea out of my head, as little pieces of this new startup, keep creeping out of my mind in segments of delight.
I ripped out a few sentences of what I was sure most likely was going to get me the same response as I had received so many times in the past with my first startup. An "oh that sounds nice." As I finished my explanation, she turned and looked at me dead center, with her mouth partly open and said "I want to be a part of Passdown." Of course I heard her, but I was stunned so I said "what?" She kept her serious face on, still looking dead serious at me, and repeated her statement. "I want to be a part of Passdown."
I looked at her and said "But aren't you going to school to be a nurse?" and she said "Yeah, but this is gonna be big and I want to be a part of it" As with my lawyer, here was the second person who seemed to know exactly what I was saying and she could see the enormous possibilities for Passdown. Unlike Josh, she saw the other side of the two things Passdown does. He saw the one, she saw the other. And they both possessed that glimmer in their demeanor of "they know." Yes, it has the possibility of being BIG, still a ton of work to be done to get it to that point.
As the night went on Myra told me stories and I could see she had some sort of links to the startup world. We had a great talk and I'm really impressed with her. Still I was taken aback and wondered to myself, "Could Passdown really be big?" Why had these two people reacted the way they did? This is something new for me, to see other humans react this way, kind of shocks me with a thrilling glimpse of maybe what could be to come.
I'm pretty sure at this point, even with not knowing Myra all that well, that she is going to be a BIG part of Passdown. Her voice, the look in her eye when she said "I want to be a part of Passdown" it was like a statement of fact. She had no doubt whatsoever. Here she is starting classes again in two days to follow the path of what we do, if we want a better life than cleaning toilets. She had no concern for that part of her life. Myra's face and statement said it all. "I want to be a part of Passdown"
Now this is what a founder wants to hear. This is what a founder wants to experience. If the reaction of the potential users is anything like these two people, well then, maybe I finally found my gift for humanity. ~
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