[xwdv]

I am such a person. I could afford to work for years without money thanks to my high net worth and investments in the tech sector, and have over a decade of software development experience in building robust web scale applications.

Unfortunately, most potential co-founders write me off when they discover I’m ethically challenged.

[withinboredom]

> most potential co-founders write me off when they discover I’m ethically challenged.

I would have loved to have come across this comment years ago. I was building a bit of awesome software that turned out to be "illegal" ("PayPal is a bank -- oh, you're a regulator? PayPal isn't a bank!" kind of illegal). It was really interesting, but my cofounder backed out once we ran into regulation designed to keep us out of the market. I wanted to keep going and pretend the regulation didn't exist/apply to us.

[DiggyJohnson]

What a fascinating response.

[icedchai]

How are you "ethically challenged"? And what prevents you from simply BSing them so they don't discover this?

[ZephyrBlu]

> ethically challenged

Is that like a euphemism for sociopath?

I'm being slightly facetious, but I don't really know what you mean by "ethically challenged".

[casey77]

Probably a euphemism for worked at Facebook

[harperlee]

Perhaps time in prison? In the sense that people assume having gone to prison is a challenge to the default assumption of whether you are a good person.