&gt; Nobody makes a salary of 100k per month.<p>The founder of the last startup I worked at made 100k per month and wasn&#x27;t even the CEO, and that was pre-product and pre-revenue. He just raised a bunch of money on a pitch deck.<p>I&#x27;m definitely not saying that&#x27;s common, but it&#x27;s not unheard of either. Inside Silicon Valley there&#x27;s a tightly prescribed set of norms that tend to be followed, but outside of there money tends to change hands a lot more quickly and fluidly. That&#x27;s the benefit of being in a place like NYC, because people tend to be motivated more by self-interest rather than by trying to look cool or fit in, so it&#x27;s a lot easier to pitch folks on stuff if you find a novel but rational opportunity.