This is the kind of "control freak" tendency that makes many startup ventures untenable; if you cannot give up some control (and I will grant such tendencies are not natural), you might not be the best person to be running such a startup venture.
Yup, my suggestion of giving control to five or six "trustworthy owners" is definitely the epitome of "control freak". :-)
Why all the emotion?
Blue sky ventures and "maintaining control" are pretty much in opposition to each other if you do not want to marginalize your funding opportunities. The lack of intrinsic capital is going to make things tough, because the only real currency you have *is* control.
No, the real currency that I want to have is an awesome talent pool and some good demonstrable progress before we look for additional funding.
I don't have a need for control. I insist upon the boundary that the AGI must be protected and not able to be used to "take over the world".
Yes, that is going to reduce my funding opportunities -- but it's a requirement that I'm not willing to concede and I will black-ball any "trustworthy owner" candidates who show *any* signs of being willing to concede it.
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