Support David FW

In my early twenties I snuck into a birthday party and had a few drinks with a wealthy, rags-to-riches tech CEO and investor. He attributed all of his success to the resilience, the perseverance, the ability to read rooms and build trust with strangers, the ability to detect and cut through BS, and the hustle that he learned on the streets as a struggling door-to-door salesman.

Years later I followed his example. In early 2025 I quit my day job, sold nearly everything I owned, and spent 6 months working on the streets. I disconnected from my personal and professional bubble in tech and finance and plugged into reality at the ground level.

I talked to the rich and the poor, the red and the blue, the rural and the urban, the bankers and the beggars, the drug dealers and the addicts, the tech bros and the sex workers, the FBI and the gangbangers — I connected with thousands of Americans on street corners, in their living rooms, or in the cars where they slept.

I set out to the streets as a deliberate exercise before I would build my own AI company. Instead, my time on the streets provoked the moral and intellectual reckoning that clarified my obligation to challenge the current American tech and finance establishment. I'm not taking a stand against technology, capitalism, or progress. I'm taking a stand against negligence, defrauding investors, gambling with other people's retirement savings, and active harms against the American people.

Friends — I publicly self-immolated my career and am likewise burning my personal savings to hold out the rock on behalf of all the American people. I need your support while I figure out how to pay my bills, my PR interns, my PhD climate scientist, and the rest of my team. I am fronting everything out of my own pocket. I just burned my professional future for the village, and I'm asking for the village to get my back as well. Thank you. (: