You’re trying to take it in a stride and simply vent about it, but this should be something completely benign.
“Awie, Mr. Entrepreneur can’t focus on things that matter because literally everyone in your company told you your thing doesn’t matter?”
They told you they weren’t interested. You keep trying to do your personality cult employee mindset talk to the wrong people. You don’t know other people, this is a you problem. None of those sacrifices should have been forced on those particular people. In your standard, any entrepreneurial endeavor is worth pursuing by merely being entrepreneurial, which is not true.
The harder pill for you to swallow is that this game is actually not available to people that aren’t rich, it’s all an illusion. Congratulations on raising some capital, that structure is real! But the idea that everyone can build something scrappy and take sacrifices if they just get out of an employee mindset is fiction. The people you fawn over were able to do their own seed rounds and just pretend they were taking sacrifices even if they didn’t.