I've worked with pre-seed impact founders for over a decade all over the world. They are able to raise angel money and maybe up to a seed round, before the system shuts its doors to them.

Founders who operate with integrity rarely have hockey stick biz models. They have solid, secure, and sustainable models. What the VC system was never set up to fund or advocate for.

True systems change is so late and underfunded that it no longer just needs patient capital. It needs a Bitcoin treasury that cannot be interfered with for a few years at least until the first exchanges go down (and the price jumps accordingly.)

This enables founders to operate leanly on cash flow and BTC backed fiat loans. To survive past product market fit without interferance from bad actors.

I always played friendly within the VC system until I realized that we have the option to divest entirely. To remove our startups from the surveillance and exploitation grid, serve thousands, and rely on an ever appreciating asset that provides just like nature does - slowly, calmly, seasonly, in cycles.

Of course you still need to be able to raise that first catchment of capital from values-aligned supporters to HODL it - but then just stay singularly focused on your core value creation.