{"id":12466,"date":"2019-11-15T13:31:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12466"},"modified":"2019-11-15T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T21:51:30","slug":"the-problem-technical-founders-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/the-problem-technical-founders-have\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem Technical Founders Have"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n<\/span>Technical <\/span>founders often lose <\/span>their money<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This post explores <\/span>ducking <\/span>bankruptcy as a <\/span>tech <\/span>founder. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>Cautionary tale: Nicolai Tesla<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Problem: Tesla, like Nicolai Tesla and JP Morgan started a <\/span>company. Tesla made zero<\/span>. (GE founder = Morgan; hat tip @GarryTan for #netflix Rec). <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPhoto credit, Tom Brady\n

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#nonEmployeeCoFounder is <\/span>like a “selfie No Self”<\/span>. Tom Brady took the selfie<\/span>. And he <\/span>cropped <\/span>himself out<\/span><\/p>\n

Problem: Tesla died bankrupt<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Solution: Duck bankruptcy<\/p>\n

Case study with Elon Musk, my #WrightBros based theorem = Musk funded Tesla StartX by initially selling<\/span><\/p>\n

– yellow pages {Zip2}<\/span><\/p>\n

– debit cards outta Omaha {PayPal #poBox45950}]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPhoto credit Larry Chiang\n

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initially, <\/span>I’ll be <\/span>your <\/span>#nonEmployeeCoFounder<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hope every time you see a Tesla, all y\u2019all think:<\/span><\/p>\n

Nickie Nick Nicolai Tesla was a #nonEmployeeCoFounder of GE [General Electric] but earrned zero dollars <\/span><\/p>\n

Losing means dying poor as a GENIUS<\/span><\/p>\n

#cs183sweatEquity <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technical founders often lose their money. This post explores ducking bankruptcy as a tech founder. Cautionary tale: Nicolai Tesla. Problem: Tesla, like Nicolai Tesla and JP Morgan started a company. Tesla made zero. (GE founder = Morgan; hat tip @GarryTan for #netflix Rec). #nonEmployeeCoFounder is like a “selfie No Self”. Tom Brady took the selfie. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}