[Matetricks]

Chris is an amazing person who takes the time to get to know you.

When we were fundraising, instead of having us do a regular pitch he took me to an event where Peter Thiel was giving a talk about his new book. We were a chess education company, so he thought it would be good for us to talk with Thiel as he's a chess master himself.

He didn't end up investing in us but my experience with him was much more memorable than any of the other meetings we had while fundraising.

[gertef]

How much funding did you seek for a chess education company?

[Matetricks]

It was called Chesscademy and we were raising $750k.

We were tackling the adaptive learning problem by creating tailored curricula. The plan was to move outside of chess to other subjects as we grew, but we found monetization to be very difficult.