Founders

I think taking VC money is fine. There are many valid perspectives, but mine is: "You have to take care of your people."

My team needs certainty and stability, like paying for health insurance and life away from work. Everything else is second. 

Bootstrapping is romantic, but sadly doesn't apply equally.

yes! vc money is fine if you are doing vc scale.
funny how the bootstrapping gods: levels, dhh, gumroad have a diff bts.

both 37sig and gumroad has >10MM seed.

levels was right person/place/time w/ nomadlist. now he's just using his distribution to make money of ai tourists, which is also fine – hard to replicate.