What's the most statistically improbable thing you've done? I'll go first.

Most girls fantasize about boys.
Kissing boys.
Dating boys who become men.
Getting married to one.
Making a tiny version of themselves together,
a little remixed echo of them both,
watching that little human live a better life than you until you die.

I like boys.
But the only thing I’ve ever fantasized about was doing the most statistically improbable thing and then keep outdoing myself until I die.

Since 2015, my “improbable PR” (personal record) has been getting a deal on Shark Tank.

I’ve been dying to unseat it, but never really did — until this year.
In 2025, something finally topped that.

Here’s the math.

Of all founders who try to raise venture capital, well under 1% ever close a $4M+ seed round.
Of those founders, about 10–13% are women.
Of those women, fewer than 1% are non-white.
Of those, fewer than 0.1% are non-technical founders.

By the time you get here, you’re basically looking at a single pixel in the venture dataset.

A small fraction of those rare 1% eventually get “lawyer-gated” by their VCs.

That’s VC-speak for:

It’s rare — maybe 1% of venture-backed founders ever hit that wall.
And of those, fewer than 5% ever rebuild enough credibility
to make that firewall look like a strategic misstep by the fund.

So:

1.0 (founder)
× 0.5% (raise $4M+)
× 13% (female)
× 1% (non-white)
× 0.1% (non-technical)
× 15% (solo founder)
× 1% (lawyer-gated)
× 5% (comeback)
= 0.000000004875

That’s roughly five in a billion.

But the game isn’t about odds, skill, or luck.
It’s about refusing to stop playing — no matter how many times they say it’s over.

That’s why my VCs lawyer-gated me 19 months after they invested.
They wanted me to shut my company down — 19 months after I came up with the idea.

I said: Amazon is twelve years old and it’s still Day Zero there.
And you want me to shut it down before we even turn two?
Hell no.

The harder they pushed, the harder I pushed back.
So they did the only thing left that could “contain” me — they went nuclear.
They blocked my ability to communicate with anyone except their lawyers.

And I’m almost certain I’m the first founder they’ve ever done that to —
in fifteen years and over $100M invested across roughly 200 startups.

It’s now been two years since I was lawyer-gated — and the reality is unfolding that they tried to shut me down for producing the very outcome they invested in me to deliver.

They’re still our investors.
They’ll still make money.
As long as they un-lawyer-gate me to collect it. 🧐
(Probably my next chartable statistically improbable milestone.)

What’s the most improbable thing you’ve done?

Kaeya