So I know, especially with a lot of the layoffs with bigger companies lately, a lot of people are anxious about starting new jobs. When it comes to startups though, how well funded does it have to be for you to feel comfortable joining? I think I wouldn't join anything that has less than maybe 20 million at least in funding, but curious to hear your thoughts.

I think more important than funding is who's the team that you're working with, you believe in the people, what's the plan, is there a strategy in place to see it working. Because then you can get funding even if there's little.

If I were to stay there for a long time, the most important thing to me would be the clients, the contracts with those clients and the duration.

Well, it depends on the foundation of the company. It also depends on the mission statement, what the energy is like, and what type of business it is, and then where we're going with it is how I would start.

I'm not familiar with startup culture very well, but if I remember correctly, the essential thing is betting on the right people. Because no idea is an idea, but people are people.

It's very important to understand their burn rate and their runway when joining a startup.

For example, you would hope that a startup would have a runway of cash for like a good two years, right? And that the team knows that, okay, they may run out in two years, but we will start fundraising at a certain point in time.

As someone who's built these types of companies from scratch and also joined early-stage companies, I should probably want a lot more of a runway than what I usually do but now you should definitely look for six months if you join