As a Gen Zer founder I’m somewhat bitter how the previous generation completely ruined VC/PE funding for us. Plenty of really braindead ideas without clear roadmap to profitability got funding in the 2010s golden era of startups, peddling nothing more than growth myth.

I run a small agricultural operation, so stockpiling in one season and burning through it in the other is just part of the business cycle. I just budget across the calendar year instead of monthly or quarterly.