Max Denevich

You just hit a wall and that wall forces a decision from everyone in the room.

So our investment was running out.

Bas was very transparent with the team.

It was like a couple of months after I joined the team.

Roughly six months of runway left.

And it was like two options.

close enough big deals passed with upfront payments to keep going or get additional funding from existing investors.

Neither was granted.

And then the growth team, the real story, then the growth team, the people who could have actually driven sales and pulled us through almost entirely left to a competitor.

Then the people who are supposed to save the company

live because they don't believe it can be saved.

That's a very specific telling.

And I also had an offer from that same competitor, significantly more money than I was making.

But the story is I turned down the offer and stayed, because it was like the smart financial move definitely was not.

My girlfriend at the time actually broke up with me.

all of this decision.

She could not understand why I choose a company that might not exist in six months.

Better salary and stability.

I get it.

It wasn't rational by any normal measure.