“I’ll quit my job the day you fund me.”<\/p>\n
For over a decade, that line made me close the deck.<\/p>\n
My logic was simple.
\nIf you can’t bet on yourself, why should I bet on you?
\nSkin in the game first. Then we talk.<\/p>\n
I believed everyone could take that risk. I was wrong.<\/p>\n
The founder across the table wasn’t afraid of risk.
\nHe was protecting people. A spouse. School fees.
\nA parent’s medicine. Rent on the 1st.
\nAlone, he’d have jumped years ago. <\/p>\n
But you don’t gamble with the people who depend on you.
\nThat isn’t weakness.
\nThat’s responsibility.<\/p>\n
It took me years as an investor to finally see it. <\/p>\n
“I’ll quit once it’s funded” was never a red flag.
\nIt’s one of the most honest things a founder can tell you.
\nSo we built something around that truth.<\/p>\n
At A Foundery, you don’t think about rent from day one.
\nYour living expenses are covered. Your only job is to find your first paying customer. Not a deck. Not a valuation. A customer who pays.<\/p>\n
If that’s the bet you’ve been waiting to make
\nthe one your family couldn’t afford for you to make alone
\nour Summer Cohort is now open come and build your dream at our Venture Studio in Princeton, New Jersey<\/p>\n
Link below in comments..<\/p>\n
So which is it: is “I’ll quit the day you fund me” a red flag,
\nor the most responsible thing a founder can say?<\/p>\n
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