The founder narrative has always been a solo sport. One hero, one vision, one origin story. What Adam Ryan is pointing at here is the accounting error that sits underneath almost every founder biography. The personal balance sheet never makes the pitch deck. From an investor standpoint, founders who can actually name this, not perform gratitude, but genuinely account for it, tend to be more self-aware operators across the board. The ones who can't see the cost to the people closest to them usually can't see other blind spots either.