Exactly, we launched three months ago, have revenues(4 digits monthly), a healthy 100% monthly growth rate.
We just left the interview really confused about the reasons why they wanted to interview us in the first place. Since all they really did was arguing our market had 0 potential and our app was not useful, which in itself is totally fine. But why interview us, in the first place, if you don't believe in it?
The fact is, we will never know why they interviewed us and subsequently rejected us. We just need to carry on.
Our goal now is to get ramen profitable(we are really close) and prove them wrong ;)
The interview from their perspective is probably an opportunity to learn more about it and see if you can ease any concerns they have. Another possibility is that they may have liked the team and wanted to see if you would consider working on something else.
Or it might have been the classic "husband-and-wife squabble": one of the partners really liked you (possibly not someone in the interview), then convinced the rest (who disagreed) to give you a shot. The others came in pre-biased to reject you, but willing to be just polite enough to appease your advocate partner.
If you really aced the interview, you'd never know it. They'd still dislike you. But they wouldn't be able to say no, since they knew they'd have to tell your advocate what happened in the interview--so they'd give you a "we'll get back to you." Then, later that day, the interviewers and the advocate have a huge argument on the real merits of your company. Your fate hangs in the balance of that argument.
If you've ever run a garage sale, you'll have seen this all play out in real-time on your lawn. :)
We just left the interview really confused about the reasons why they wanted to interview us in the first place. Since all they really did was arguing our market had 0 potential and our app was not useful, which in itself is totally fine. But why interview us, in the first place, if you don't believe in it?
The fact is, we will never know why they interviewed us and subsequently rejected us. We just need to carry on.
Our goal now is to get ramen profitable(we are really close) and prove them wrong ;)