Patrick McKenzie

Like the true biggest issue is like, why is it coming down to like Patrick McKenzie's ability to fundraise in the tech industry for us to like have a system here?

Okay, bracketing that, the tech industry underperformed my expectations for what the tech industry should have accomplished here.

There were some bright spots and less bright spots with regards to the fundraising project.

For those of you who don't know, the total budget of this project was $1.2 million, which is not quite couch cushion money, but is not large relative to the total amount of resources the tech industry can deploy on problems.

And in some cases, I looked at my email this morning to refresh my memory.

I sent a CEO at a particular company, and I'm not going to name people, but they're welcome to claim credit if they want to claim credit.

I emailed the CEO at a particular company.

Hey, I saw you like to tweet about this on Twitter.

I'm essentially raising a seed round except for a 501c3 charity.

And we urgently need money for this.

Here's a two-page memo.

And I sent that email at 4.30 p.m.

And 4.30 p.m.

California time.

And he got back to me.

There was some internal emails of like routers to this person, routers to this person.

He run that by blah, blah, blah.

9.30 the next morning, he said, I'm personally in for $100,000 out of my own pocket.

My banker is going to contact you as a wire clear the same day.

So, yay for that.