Daily Endeavor Blog

Though a lot of cultural angst is spent on individuals “doing it on their own,” nothing great ever comes together in a vacuum or without a raft of other people. It’s much the case with Endeavor Prep.

We’ve built up the service, the sites, all the operations and infrastructure with deep wells of expertise from all over. We’re super fortunate to have such a great team and extended team supporting our work. Thank God we’ve been using wikis (thank you Socialtext) as our shared workspaces to pull of it together. It’s allowed us to find the best experts and work with them where they live. A quick look at even the first dozen people displayed in one of our workspaces includes New York, Barcelona, Bloomington, Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, San Francisco, London, DC, Santa Monica, Toronto, Corona Del Mar and Boston.

Building this company has been a triumph of the collective. The iterative prototyping approach — build, use, learn, repeat — is the straightest line to discovering how to serve our customers, and it is 100% powered by people and their tremendous contributions. We’ve been advised, informed and helped along by well over 200 people over the last year. This is in addition to the learning that’s been provided by a similar number of undergrads and recent grads, as well as the folks who work with them, over the last three years. I’m deeply grateful to all of you.

Customers, investors, advisors, friends — all of you — thank you.