The $50K Check That Changed Everything
“He gave $50,000, and that was the first thing that showed me it's not just me, there's somebody else that believes in what we're doing.”
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investors. And so he ended up saying, you know what, like, I love this first, you try to hire me. And then he was like, okay, I get it. You're not leaving this company. And I was still working in clinic at the time. So he's like, you know what, I want to like, I believe in listen, and I want to put some money. He gave $50,000. And like, I think that was the first thing that showed me it's
not just me, but like, there's somebody else that believes in what we're doing. That's a third party. It's not my co-founder. It's not myself, not my family. It's like actually someone who's going to give us some money for what we're doing. And I think for like any founder, the first time you find a paying customer or someone like who believes in what you're doing, that was
like enough for me to say like, okay, I think I'm going to leave what I'm doing. And I ended up two months later, thought like started the company in September and December. I left medicine and just decided to go