via ParisLemon: (A Medium Blog)
The service was still about six months away from public launch. I had gotten access to an early alpha build (version 0.1.7 — user #22) as we were evaluating an investment in Vine for CrunchFund. It’s easy to say with hindsight that I “got it” immediately, but my first email to co-founder Dom Hofmann after using the product does back me up a bit:
I LOVE stories like this. I wish more VCs would tell these stories. Anyone in the first 50 users of any current billion dollar (valuation) company should recount these experience and it would be great if someone compiled them into one place so people could hear them similarly to Hertzfeld’s Folkore site about Apple’s history.