btw in regards to confidence, the only thing I have ever been accused of is being too confident. I did everything I could to keep my last startup open including

btw in regards to confidence, the only thing I have ever been accused of is being too confident. I did everything I could to keep my last startup open including making hard decisions like toothpaste (so I could look clean for a meeting) or macaroni and cheese (so i could eat something). That was not because I could not do anything else it is because I believed in me and knew if I hung on it would work, in the end, it did. I refused to ask for any money back then and/or noone offered it (largely because they thought I was crazy i think) soo I have never been in a situation quite like this one where people come out of the woodwork wanting to hand it to me. It does not exactly help that I am a semi-celebrity in the city I live in (only about 250k people) even the new mayor-elect called me "possibly the smartest young man in the united states" in his acceptance speech the other day lol. Obviously that is not true, but I think those factors contribute to people wanting to bet on me.