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Eric and Chris have been long time friends since college at Stanford. Both successful founders in their own right, they've come together to solve a problem they've seen firsthand many times over the years.

Eric ran the marketing team at PayPal, where he oversaw the campaign to monetize the online payment service and spearheaded product marketing from 1999-2003. In 2004 he founded World Ahead, a media venture, which he grew to national prominence and profitability before being acquired. His book, The PayPal Wars, won the Writers Notes Book Award and was hailed by Tom Peters as "the best description of business strategy unfolding in a world changing at warp speed." He holds a degree from Stanford.

Chris was a senior executive in private equity, finance, and banking for 15 years and directly involved in the origination and management of billions of dollars of debt and equity investments. He founded two companies, Crestridge Investments (a private equity firm) and Third Wave Partners (which made debt and equity investments in distressed situations), and was managing director of a subsidiary of Emigrant Bank, the largest privately owned bank in the country. He studied at Stanford.