Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

Are you gonna abandon this company too? 🤔

1 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief excerpt from a pitch session, investors (Speaker A, C, D) question the founders of the mental‑health app Sola about several critical concerns. Speaker A asks whether the founders would abandon the company after receiving funding, probes how Sola will feel personal and authentic, and challenges the team on how they will differentiate their product in a crowded market of thousands of mental‑health apps, noting that Sola’s focus on women narrows the competition to a few hundred. Speakers C and D shift the discussion to technical implementation, specifically the use of a smart wallet for signing permissions and the handling of private keys, emphasizing that the company does not retain any private keys and that users retain control of their own wallets. The dialogue highlights investor focus on founder commitment, market differentiation, user‑centric personalization, and secure, decentralized technical architecture.

If we fund you, are you going to abandon this company too?
How do you make Sola more personal and feel real?
There are thousands of these mental health apps out there. Thousands. Are you— you're specifically going after women, I see that. So that maybe narrows it down to hundreds. How are you, like, how are you going to be better than all those other applications out there?
So I have to give you signing permission? Exactly, to the smart wallet.
And not to me, to your own wallet.
Right.
We do not have any private key. We are only—
No, but you spend on behalf of our wallet to do these subscription payments. Why are you doing this? Why do you care? So how does your product differ from, let's just say, using GPT, for instance? Do you guys use the large language models from GPT? The neurobalance scale, is that deeply rooted in science? And how proven is that?