Most successful entrepreneurs (and investors) will tell you that building the right team is the most important aspect of startup-ing. We’re pretty darn lucky to have built a founding team with deep experience at blue chip tech and consumer companies like Microsoft, eBay, Clorox, Goldman Sachs and a few startups.

Some traits we share are: an obsession with building, using—and eating—cool products; a love of good food (without being snobs); and an urge to be unconventional.

However, what makes us really click as a team is our differences. We’re a group of:

• Dreamers and realists
• Early risers and night owls
• Vocal cheerleaders and reserved thinkers
• Mac and PC enthusiasts

Somehow, it all seems to just work. Collectively, we’re gotten pretty good at playing to our strengths and recognizing our individual weaknesses.

Here are some fun tidbits about our life experiences. If you ever run into us, try and guess who’s done what:

• One of us used to dissect human cadavers at the local morgue
• Someone’s played a Stradivarius violin valued over $1 million at Carnegie Hall in New York—in the bathroom
• Someone’s inner geek helped him build a ray tracer in 5 days—trust us, that’s impressive!
• Somebody caught a monkey with his bare hands (and let him go)

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