“He lives in Brazil and he walked away with like over $4 million because he didn't raise any VC money. He just built from the ground up from his bedroom and within a year and 6 months of launching his app he walked away with $4 million. The deal went through in 3 months because there was no VCs to mess around with.”

Brazilian solo founder walked with $4M in 3 months — no VCs to negotiate around

Concrete proof point for the bootstrapped path: jack-of-all-trades technical founder, no outside capital, full-stack himself, exit closed in three months straight to his bank account. The absence of investors isn't just better economics, it's faster deal velocity because nobody else has to sign off.