Why do you think leaders hide from funding their vision?
Well, in my specific case, I never wanted other people to encroach on my vision.
I didn't want any influence. I didn't want people taking it over.
So I like to kind of maintain 100% of my vision and what I'm doing. I'd like to be
not just the driver, but the driver and all the passengers as well.
Now, this is for me specifically. And don't get me wrong, I think there's plenty of value
in putting together a team and finding people that compensate for your weaknesses.
And then all together, you're going after the same vision. I think that's fine. And that's when it
comes to funding too. You need to bring in the right people who are willing to, I guess,
contribute something along with their funds. Maybe you're just interested in funding and you're not
interested in any kind of feedback and they don't want to give any feedback. They don't want any
part of it. They're just saying, here's some money and for this, I want X percent. That's different.
I don't like doing that because I don't need to do that. Let's put it that way.
I was fortunate enough to have a pretty good financial backing for everything I'm doing,
kind of like self-funding so that hasn't been an issue for me. But I would easily,
like if I were doing something huge that I didn't have the resources for, I would easily
find people to help fund my vision and just keeping that in mind, like going into it with
the mentality. If I'm going to make this work, there's only one way I'm going to make it work,
and that's with other people's money. Therefore, I need to understand from the outset that I'm not
going to be a hundred percent owner of this. I think people have a difficult time with that.
There's kind of like that greed factor. You want it all. So you're going to try to do it on your own,
even though you really don't have the funds for it. And it's never going to grow to where
it could be if you did have those funds. So again, it's about mentality.