Presenting Passdown At Denver Startup Week

I've been working my butt off creating 20 slides with 15 seconds in between them to present Passdown on Insight Night,during the upcoming Denver Startup Week. 

Somehow luck fell in my path. It was an email that I had almost overlooked as it was in my 'promotions' folder. That's the folder people want to sell you stuff in. Who looks at that as important?

My email system is to look at it daily, clear out the useless, respond to the needed,and be captured by those daring enough to take risk like I.

So there it was some man asking to know what my startup was and if it could inspire the world. I was so busy in the mind building my new startup Passdown that I didn't really read the email thoroughly. So I had thought he wanted to know what my company did. 

I shot off some fast typed email to him and told him exactly what Passdown was. And for some reason, I added the statement. "Hope I don't get picked" as I knew it was some kind of presentation to the public, but I really didn't give that much thought. I just knew, I haven't spoken in front of crowd since I was in eighth grade, and yes, my knees actually did knock. It was an unpleasant experience burned into my memory.

The next day Jared from Name.com wrote back and said "I hope you do get picked, I have not thought of this" 

I got picked. At moments I am terrified to speak in front of crowd. I have no experience doing it. But then that is what us founders face in the entire startup build. A founder has to wear so many hats, and yeah, some of those hats are really uncomfortable. 

Truly, I am excited to share with Denver StartUp Week, what seems to excite people immensely. My new startup Passdown. It is a baby startup, hardly two and half months old and this baby is making peoples eye's sparkle. It's making them act in ways I have never seen. When to me, it's just another idea I am chasing. With a ton of work to be done, risk to take, mistakes that feel like endless agony, problems to be solved, people to meet, triumphs followed by despair....yeah to me it's just another one of my crazy ideas. 

All my ideas have always had one thing in them for me. It's my gift I want to give humanity. Yes, I'm always wanting to help people, in some massive way. It just seems this is what one must do. I must do it. This sparkle in peoples eyes for Passdown, yes, it pleases me. Maybe Passdown is the ache inside me to build for you. Maybe it will be the one.

I don't know. I'm looking forward to finding out.