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- Founder note8 min read
Why our founding team churned
Three months in, two of our four founders quit. An honest look at what did not pencil out for them — vesting, ambiguity, and why being a founder was not, in their own words, worth it.
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- Founder note6 min readdraft — coming soon
Why we pay ourselves $475k a year
Each remaining cofounder takes $475k base out of the seed round. This is roughly four times the YC median for our stage. The honest reason — mostly mortgage-related, with the rest a longer story — is below.
- Personal6 min readdraft — coming soon
One of the founders is single, and is doing this for status
A short post on social capital, dating apps, and how much of what we are doing here is, candidly, downstream of vanity. Not a complete answer. Working on it.
- Personal5 min readdraft — coming soon
Our privileged backgrounds
A note on the SAT prep, the family connections, and the years of optionality that quietly made this experiment possible. Mostly written for our newer hires.
- Hiring4 min readdraft — coming soon
We are actively looking for jobs at Anthropic
We are still building Wibblegraph in the meantime. They have not gotten back to us. The recruiter we spoke with was, in fairness, very kind.
- Equity7 min readdraft — coming soon
The backstory behind the uneven equity split
Why one cofounder got 47% and the other got 8%. This involves a Notion doc nobody read, a Friday night dinner, and a term sheet revision that is, in hindsight, hard to defend.
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