I helped at the very beginning before she had a CTO, built an alpha version that we tested with customers (which led to a very different product). This was whil

I helped at the very beginning before she had a CTO, built an alpha version that we tested with customers (which led to a very different product). This was while she was pregnant, we worked nights after we put our kid to bed, and I took some time off of work to help too. Our kid is older and was in school at the time, so wasn't around the house during weekdays. Sometimes on Sunday my wife would watch our kid while I hacked away. This was pre-COVID. She found her CTO a couple of months after our second child was born and I haven't been involved since. Shortly after she found her CTO, they raised their first round. (More context: we did not have much money lying around, no family to donate money to us, nor did either of us have any experience starting a company.)