Unless you are saving starving children in Africa, no one cares about your mission. Any interviewee with any type of social skills knows how to pretend and feed you the BS like they are excited about the mission.
You are the founder but even for you once you take outside funding, your “passion” is irrelevant, your investors only care about the “exit” and if you do get acquired, two weeks later you will more than likely have a blog post on your website about “Our Amazing Journey” announcing the sunsetting of your product.
It is naive for anyone to go into any company and treat it as any more than a trade for money for labor.
You are the founder but even for you once you take outside funding, your “passion” is irrelevant, your investors only care about the “exit” and if you do get acquired, two weeks later you will more than likely have a blog post on your website about “Our Amazing Journey” announcing the sunsetting of your product.
It is naive for anyone to go into any company and treat it as any more than a trade for money for labor.