Quality of shoes don't exactly matter when you are running away from fire. Unfortunately that's how the start up analogy works. Quality of shoes matter if you

Quality of shoes don't exactly matter when you are running away from fire. Unfortunately that's how the start up analogy works. Quality of shoes matter if you work at a garage or car wash, or may be even if you are a professional fire fighter. Its one thing to say 'My firefighters came out fine in the building fire wearing bad shoes.' totally a different thing to say 'Bad shoes need to be provided to firefighters.'