Editing The Pen Addict 78/transcript (section)

== Funding Goal ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So how did it feel when you sort of blew through that in the first hour? How did that feel?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It was surprising. It was stressful as well, because it's like, oh, we plan to do $5,000. And it was, you know, this many cases estimated out to, and we've now gotten to four times that. And it's – I don't know. It was very stressful. I think that was it.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' It's funny. The conversations we had about just setting our goal were long and intense and, like, very – like, we were sweating our goal. We knew it wasn't going to be less than $5,000. But we were talking about putting it at $7,000 or $8,000. We thought it would be crazy to go to, like, $10,000. We're like, what if it doesn't fund? You know, like, we at least want to fund to, you know, to make these machines – to buy these machines so we can, you know, open our shop. So we, like, really sweated those few thousand dollars between, like, $5,000 and $8,000 to put in our goal. And then when it blew by it so fast, it was like, what's happening here? And when is it going to stop? And it did start to freak us out, like, the first couple days. We were really – I mean, we were – I mean, I was stressed. I know Jeff was stressed. But it wasn't necessarily in a bad way. It was just like, okay, we need to kind of reboot and recalibrate what our expectations are and look at preparing to fulfill a little bit differently than we were before. So by the time we were about a week into it, maybe a week and a half, I think Jeff and I had talked so much and we had kind of redone some things on the back end that we felt, okay, these are the – you know, if this keeps going, these are the big numbers that we can handle, you know, at these levels like 50,000 or went to 100,000, whatever. We're trying to plan ahead and once we realized that we could do that and handle that no problem, I think our stress level went way down.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I've just gone to the NockCO website to put it into the show notes, which you can find at 5by5.tv slash penaddict slash 78. And I see that you put the final countdown on the – Yeah, you didn't know that?

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' I figured that's why you did it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, I just did it.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' No, that's awesome. I did that this morning. I had to put that out there because Jeff had done it like – when we were getting ready to launch, before we were live, Jeff had tweeted out that video. So I put it in there at the end here, you know, as we're winding down. I figured you'd just seen that off of there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, I just – we're like one mind, the three of us. It's kind of scary.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It is the universal song of success. I want to write the universal song of success.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' I know. Well, that thing's got – that video has 52 million views. Wow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's probably just for people doing things like what I just did.