"- Chase Adams, the founder of Watsi. Watsi is the crowdfunding platform for healthcare that lets anyone donate as little as $5 to fund medical care for people in need. So before starting Wasti, Chase..."

"Welcome Chase. - Thanks for having me. I love New York. I was just walking here and there was this really old construction worker crossing 42nd, and he was walking really slowly, and there was this yo..."

"in San Francisco. So about three and a half years ago, I was serving in the Peace Corps in Central America, and I was sitting in the back of a bus and I remember that at that point in my life, that bu..."

"scale and speed with which things were happening in San Francisco. And so, I remember saying to everyone I saw, and this is a direct quote, I said, "Fuck, non-profits." I said, "I'm done with this." A..."

"So there I am sitting in the back of this bus, in the most beautiful place on Earth, during the most exciting time of my life, and I'm somehow jaded beyond belief, and a woman gets on the bus, and she..."

"To go back to my house, this is where I lived in the Peace Corps. Recruited my two best friends, Mark and Howard, to join the organization. We spent our last six months working on the business plan fo..."

"etc. , and we would jump on a hangout every single Tuesday and talk about our progress. At one point, we were 8 volunteers, across 4 continents, and 6 time zones, all working on Watsi. And in retrospe..."

"mom donated, Grace's mom donated, Jesse's friends and family donated, and then it just died. A few hours nothing was happening. And so I decided to posted on Hacker News, had never posted on Hacker Ne..."

"Watsi, so I remember reading the post a few minutes later after the kind of like the emotion died down, I remember turning to my girlfriend at the time and asking, you know, "Do you think that all the..."

"But at Watsi that house of cards was really about to come tumbling down, I mean, to give you an idea of how broken our operations were, we had never in a million years expected that we would fund all ..."

"salary then hopefully the salary of a few other people. So I read a bunch of, a bunch of books on non-profit fund raising, um, I go out, have a million meetings, I have no connections in the Valley at..."

"celebrate it, um, so we won the Huff Po competition, um... Immediately after, I'm flying down to Palm Springs to spend Thanksgiving with my dad, I'm in the plane, the plane lands and I start getting a..."

"during YC think the biggest things for us, um... The first one was to just to focus on One Metric, that it was so easy for us to, like, get distracted by the million things that we had to do, and when..."

"that we picked an arbitrary date, three months in the future, and we said, "The rounds closing on this date," and everyone said, "We're stupid." Like, "Why would you stop raising donations?", um, but ..."

"means is that founding that initial team is just so important, um, not just from a technical perspective, but from a culture, and from a mission perspective, because if we do get lucky and Watsi does ..."

"So as a result of the work the team did, we grew 1007% in our first calendar year, um, but the stat I'm actually the most proud of is the fact that every single team member at Watsi raised more than 1..."

"So in closing, one question people always ask us, they think were crazy, they ask us, "Why? Why are you doing this?" Um, you know it's obviously not for the money, if money was the single most importa..."