Coworker approached me during lunch and pitched me the startup he was about to co-found. He told me I am the most talented but the most undervalued engineer there. He shows me the slide deck and says: “Help me build this. We will get the funding. And the job is yours.” That was 4 yrs ago and I am glad I said yes. To be honest, this was burning the candle at both ends. I slept on the floor of the cowork space conference room to make this happen.