> You needed millions of dollars, to be a big business, to have special contracts or all of the above in order for carriers to even take your meeting to see if

> You needed millions of dollars, to be a big business, to have special contracts or all of the above in order for carriers to even take your meeting to see if they'd think about putting your software on "their" phones. This isn't true at all. Sam Altman had none of these things, yet he was still able to get a meeting to discuss Loopt. Yes, you still needed "a meeting". But the process was not nearly as byzantine as you've made it seem.