“So you bootstrapped the whole company?” “Yeah, I turned it down. Turned down the funding.” “Oh.” “Yeah, I turned it down just to do this, just to grind it out, build it myself.” “So you had an opportunity to take venture money?” “Yeah, a term sheet and everything.” “From who?” “Yeah, a big fund out in Menlo Park. It was a top-tier firm, though. And they offered me like 15, some shit like 10 billion or something like that, 5 billion, something like that.” “Wait, wait, wait. A term sheet.” “Yeah.” “Okay, but not 5 billion dollars. They offered you 5 billion dollars for your seed round?” “Yeah.” “For a seed round?” “Yeah.” “What are we doing here?” “Like, what the y’all, like, you know what I’m saying?” “That’s more than the GDP of a small country.” “But I was so younger, like, I didn’t know what a cap table was.” “Are you sure they offered you 5 billion dollars?” “I turned it down.” “You didn’t even have a product.” “It was a SAFE, like, I had to give up equity for this decade.” “But you would get $5 billion?” “Yeah.” “You’d be one of the most valuable companies on earth.” “It was somewhere, it was in the billions, though.”