The Triumph of Hope Over Experience

I was working eight hours a day picking stocks. So I thought, fuck it, I'll do this really quick. We refer it to our dumb and dumb moment. It was kind of a spectacularly bad time to try and raise money. You really want to start in your 20s or 40s, but not in your 30s. And five years of financial misery inflicted on a family with young children does not work.