He told his team they had 5 months of cash left

bootstrapped my first company and there were sometimes months where we didn't pay ourselves, me and my other two co-founders, prioritizing staff to make sure that they got their monthly wage as well. And it's one of the things you just take on as a founder is that the trust that you build with the team, because you're not paying them much, as you said.

I, I, I was so nervous after that first conversation where I was like, look, I think we've only got about 5 or 6 months left in cash with the rate we're going and we need to turn it around. And, and I was like, If you, if you're gonna leave, I just wanna know, you know, so we can adapt. But they all stuck it through and a lot of them, some of them all the way through to acquisition, maybe 10 years later. So it was really proud of that.