This does come up in "friends and family" rounds though. It's relatively easy in a tech-dense city to find 35 friends and former coworkers willing to invest $1

This does come up in "friends and family" rounds though. It's relatively easy in a tech-dense city to find 35 friends and former coworkers willing to invest $15k, but I wouldn't expect that all of them have accumulated $1mm yet (especially in a high-tax locale, if your coworkers are late-20s/early-30s).