I think #2 is the salient point there and displaces #1. Creating a "groudbreaking, path forging technology and an amazing team" is the outlier, not raising a h

I think #2 is the salient point there and displaces #1. Creating a "groudbreaking, path forging technology and an amazing team" is the outlier, not raising a half a billion in funding. If you can achieve the former, then your odds of the latter go up by many orders of magnitude.