[8][9] In November 2003, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and other Silicon Valley executives spoke at an Oxford Entrepreneurs event.
"Blown away by learning about those businesses," Goodson flew to Palo Alto, where he had lunch with Levchin and Peter Thiel.
Levchin offered him a job as the lead designer within a startup incubator, and six months after their initial meeting at Oxford, Goodson took a sabbatical and moved to San Francisco.
[11][7] In April 2004, Goodson began working with Levchin at Midtown Doornail (an anagram of World Domination) as a product manager.
He remained at the company for four years, serving in various roles related to product management, UX and UI design and business development.
“How can we analyze the world's written content to create insights that weren't possible before?” Additionally funded by Niklas Zennstrom, Founders Fund, Charles Lho, and Liberty Media, over a period of several years, a founding team of scientists and engineers built Quid,[18] described as an “interactive, visual platform which allowed users to query, map and explore context around terms using a combination of language and semantic processing techniques.”[19][20] The "fully-baked" Quid was launched in January 2014.