Patrick McKenzie

And two, this is a true answer.

I'm a flawed human who has a limited number of cycles in their day and was running a very, very complex operation.

And it literally didn't occur to me, hey, maybe those people that have been making a lot of noise about writing a lot of money for pandemic checks would be willing to write a pandemic check, which like that was not entirely an irrational belief for me because I had

like reach out to people who are making a lot of noise about writing money for pandemic checks.

And they said, not in the United States, not in May.

And I thought, oh, well, it's, you know, if I light up a conversation totally cold with someone now, it's likely to just get a no again.

I should try to like scrimp and save and break the piggy bank for my daughter's college education fund.

Which by the way, she'll go to college folks, no worries.

But it's a, like how far down the list of like plan A, plan B, plan C, we were down to like plan C at that point.

There's a positive takeaway here.

So there actually is a positive takeaway in that there is one tiny actor who understands that he has unitary control over some decisions, who is capable of betting boldly on those without a huge amount of process when it is important to bet boldly on things.

Yeah.

Not to toot my own horn here, this is literally what happened.

On the first day, we're getting in Discord together and there's a bunch of infrastructure we have to sign up.

We have to get hosting, yada, yada, yada.

And there's an annoying mechanical step at this point where it's like you have to put down a credit card for a potentially unbonded expense.

And people were like, okay,

You know, there's a list of things that we want to do.

But since there is no money here, you know, like, I'll take this one and you take this one.

And after I, like, heard this conversation go on for two minutes, I said, this is not a conversation we should be having.