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Why do you think leaders hide from funding their vision?

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Well, in my specific case, I never wanted other people to encroach on my vision.

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I didn't want any influence. I didn't want people taking it over.

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So I like to kind of maintain 100% of my vision and what I'm doing. I'd like to be

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not just the driver, but the driver and all the passengers as well.

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Now, this is for me specifically. And don't get me wrong, I think there's plenty of value

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in putting together a team and finding people that compensate for your weaknesses.

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And then all together, you're going after the same vision. I think that's fine. And that's when it

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comes to funding too. You need to bring in the right people who are willing to, I guess,

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contribute something along with their funds. Maybe you're just interested in funding and you're not

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interested in any kind of feedback and they don't want to give any feedback. They don't want any

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part of it. They're just saying, here's some money and for this, I want X percent. That's different.

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I don't like doing that because I don't need to do that. Let's put it that way.

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I was fortunate enough to have a pretty good financial backing for everything I'm doing,

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kind of like self-funding so that hasn't been an issue for me. But I would easily,

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like if I were doing something huge that I didn't have the resources for, I would easily

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find people to help fund my vision and just keeping that in mind, like going into it with

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the mentality. If I'm going to make this work, there's only one way I'm going to make it work,

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and that's with other people's money. Therefore, I need to understand from the outset that I'm not

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going to be a hundred percent owner of this. I think people have a difficult time with that.

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There's kind of like that greed factor. You want it all. So you're going to try to do it on your own,

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even though you really don't have the funds for it. And it's never going to grow to where

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it could be if you did have those funds. So again, it's about mentality.