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I am such a person. I could afford to work for years without money thanks to my high net worth and investments in the tech sector, and have over a decade of sof

by xwdv 6y ago

I am such a person. I could afford to work for years without money thanks to my high net worth and investments in the tech sector, and have over a decade of software development experience in building robust web scale applications. Unfortunately, most potential co-founders write me off when they discover I’m ethically challenged.

ZephyrBlu 6y ago
> ethically challenged Is that like a euphemism for sociopath? I'm being slightly facetious, but I don't really know what you mean by "ethically challenged".
- casey77 6y ago
  Probably a euphemism for worked at Facebook
- harperlee 6y ago
  Perhaps time in prison? In the sense that people assume having gone to prison is a challenge to the default assumption of whether you are a good person.
icedchai 6y ago
How are you "ethically challenged"? And what prevents you from simply BSing them so they don't discover this?
DiggyJohnson 6y ago
What a fascinating response.
withinboredom 6y ago
> most potential co-founders write me off when they discover I’m ethically challenged. I would have loved to have come across this comment years ago. I was building a bit of awesome software that turned out to be "illegal" ("PayPal is a bank -- oh, you're a regulator? PayPal isn't a bank!" kind of illegal). It was really interesting, but my cofounder backed out once we ran into regulation designed to keep us out of the market. I wanted to keep going and pretend the regulation didn't exist/apply to us.