Hmm, flipping that about: if you want to be a useful funder, maybe you should never fund a project that anyone else in the world would fund. Which sounds nuts, but has the benefit you're sure any impact was additional.
The thing which is obvious to me now but not obvious to me then was that I was the only person who had to be comfortable with me quitting, so if you had delivered a narrative that would have gotten me to sign off on it along with the check, I model it "one coffee or less."
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(I believe this is one of YC's major innovations that people don't understand enough: successfully packaging "You should run a company" such that it pattern matches with the life trajectory / aspirations / values of people who no other stakeholder in life would tell to do that.)
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I’m hazy on your biography, but weren’t you engaged/married at the time? “You won’t believe it, honey, but a mysterious angel appeared, handed me $2,000 and a venti, and told me to quit my day job!”
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Met my wife in 2010. (I think I may have been dating someone for part of 2007 through 2009 and that would have gone in calculus for me during that part, but not materially at the other parts.)
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