Bootstrapped founder: personally paying for tokens sparks creative capital allocation
curious_vii · x · 2026-10-19
A bootstrapped founder says being personally on the hook for his and his team's token expenditure has given him unusual clarity, framing it as an interesting capital allocation problem that has forced him to be creative about AI usage.
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