While this strikes me as possibly true, maybe even probably true, I would prefer to see actual simple data about this. Sure it would be hard to get but here's the schema I imagine would be needed.
Founder ID,
Founder bank account balance average during company's first year,
Founder health metrics array [acute visits to hospital or clinic for diet/mental health issues],
Outcome of company
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If we notice that founders with low bank balances, lots of health events in their life, and unsuccessful business outcomes are popping up in the data, and then conversely founders with 100k in their personal bank on day 1 are never visiting the hospital and their companies are doing fine, then I think we could call check size a definitive contributing factor. This would fly in the face of "ramen profitability" as a virtue.
EDIT: and i think there are enougg startups out there (40,000 probably??? ask crunchbase) to have a meaningful sample size
Founder ID,
Founder bank account balance average during company's first year,
Founder health metrics array [acute visits to hospital or clinic for diet/mental health issues],
Outcome of company
---
If we notice that founders with low bank balances, lots of health events in their life, and unsuccessful business outcomes are popping up in the data, and then conversely founders with 100k in their personal bank on day 1 are never visiting the hospital and their companies are doing fine, then I think we could call check size a definitive contributing factor. This would fly in the face of "ramen profitability" as a virtue.
EDIT: and i think there are enougg startups out there (40,000 probably??? ask crunchbase) to have a meaningful sample size