Strange Places Startup Ideas Come From

Today is my twin brothers birthday. We are not literal twins. We grew up close. I am the last person in the family to have seen him physically, the last one to talk to him on the phone, and the very last contact was a text. I had deleted it to clean up my cell data, but I think he said "yes" to a question I had asked him asked him.

Three Years Old

This is his first 'rest in peace' birthday. As I have mentioned in other post, that we are still waiting for the Mesa County coroner's office to receive test back as to the cause of death. He was found in his apartment decomposed. No one had missed him in life, and it's pretty much due to the fact he withdrew from all of us as he had so much trouble living with the shame he put on himself for wasting his life on alcohol. 

In High School

He had not spoken to his two beautiful grown children in four years. He just couldn't,even though they held not one shred of resentment or anger towards him. He slowly let go of every person in his life, except me. I was the last. I had not recognized the game. He had asked for personal space as he needed to heal he said. I honored his request, forgetting about suicide thoughts tricky little maneuvers. (Make everyone think you are fine, when you are not) These last six months of waiting for the coroner's office to call and give us something to rest our ever flip flopping thoughts on has been tough. 

I do not know why it's so important to know the answer, yet it is. The one answer I dread is that the lab results will be inconclusive, and they will never know why he died on his bathroom floor with the sink water running. I just don't want that answer.

One Of The Few Photo's Found On His PC

Because of his death, I created Passdown, the startup Wael my cofounder and I have applied to Y Combinator for. When you visit the Passdown website you will find a video of his actual apartment exactly the way it was when they found his body. It would be great if you would wish him Happy Birthday,and sign the beta list in his honor today, tomorrow, and as soon as you can. Passdown is going to be a service you and your loved one's are going to be grateful for,one day. 

Passdown is super COOL and it has a SUPER cool bonus factor to it. Wael and I do believe you are going to love it. In some twisted way, my brother gave me a gift, to build for you. The strange places great startup ideas come from.

~ Happy Birthday Mark ~

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