I grew up around money without having it.
I learned early what looking like you belong does to how people treat you.
I drew paintings in every class I ever sat in instead of listening, a face is a few marks that settle what people believe about a person. I was drawing the problem I work on now.
I got fired more than once, I was a bad employee and a good builder.
I left the one job I liked because I wanted my own thing and the studio came out of that. A founder who has built something real and is still treated as small is standing in the room I grew up in.
So I read a company the way that room read me, at least from what it can see.