"dude, no one seemed interested in working on this after the weekend. I, on the other hand, have been working on this for 18 months".
Well.. WTF. NO ONE KNEW THAT BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T TELL ANYONE. Or... intentionally hid it, because you knew it was a dick move, or you're trying to skirt rules you clearly knew about ahead of time.
"Dude... I don't know if you're committed, therefore you get < 1%. I know I'm committed - it's taken me 18 months of planning my idea! 18 months I've worked on this! That you can build it in 24 hours just proves that MY 18 MONTHS is worth a lot more." (to the degree there's a thought process going on, that's part of the justification). It takes MONTHS to get investor meetings set up (especially when you don't have a product yet!) - that's HARD WORK. Sitting at a computer for 2 days? WTF?
The labor theory of value is so quaint. 18 months without a viable product, then 8 guys who had never worked together before, who just showed up at an event that sounded like fun, bang out a prototype in one weekend. And for them, it was recreational.
Do you know what it looks like to me when someone who believes he is committed and working hard for 18 months gets outdone by people playing at business for one weekend? It looks like someone taking credit for both sides of Fischer vs. Kasparov, just because he provided the chess pieces. I can't even begin to understand the cognitive defect that would allow for that.
The world might be better off without people like that, but it might also seem a bit boring if they were gone.
"dude, no one seemed interested in working on this after the weekend. I, on the other hand, have been working on this for 18 months".
Well.. WTF. NO ONE KNEW THAT BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T TELL ANYONE. Or... intentionally hid it, because you knew it was a dick move, or you're trying to skirt rules you clearly knew about ahead of time.
"Dude... I don't know if you're committed, therefore you get < 1%. I know I'm committed - it's taken me 18 months of planning my idea! 18 months I've worked on this! That you can build it in 24 hours just proves that MY 18 MONTHS is worth a lot more." (to the degree there's a thought process going on, that's part of the justification). It takes MONTHS to get investor meetings set up (especially when you don't have a product yet!) - that's HARD WORK. Sitting at a computer for 2 days? WTF?