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There are people who watch the world happen, and people who make something happen to the world. The second are rare. The second are founders.
A founder is not a title, or a stage of funding, or a press release. It is the willingness to own the outcome. To build the thing, to operate the thing, to be the person the thing points back to when it works and when it does not.
Anyone can ship. Few can sign. This is for you. And for the few who recognize you early enough to matter.
The person is the bet. The plan is just the first draft.
So: in founders we trust. Not as an article of faith. As a wager on the only people who have ever moved anything.
Founder, investor, angel, operator: if you trust in the people who start things, this is for you too. Add your name. That is the whole ask.
Once a year, a dinner. Signatories only.