Q I'm curious, like, what your just feelings have been wading into this crazy market, into pitching VCs, like, has it been what you expected going into it?
A The amount of rejection you get, you can't prepare for, unless you're, you've been dating, like, first-time dates for, like, five years straight, you know, like. It's funny how resilient you get, but I think what's really important for founders to know is that you can't just be resilient. You have to be anti-fragile. You have to come back from a stressful event or a hard event. You have to come back stronger. You can't just go back to the equilibrium. You have to come back better than you were before. The fragile response is you just Break. Like hammer tapping glass. You're just gonna break. The resilient response is like a rubber band. You stretch it, and then it just goes back to the way it was before. And then the anti-fragile response is like a muscle. So you break it down, and then it comes back stronger. What we're doing is the anti-fragile response.
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