I appreciate this, but the stakes have to be a lot lower bringing a book to market than making a $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 seed investment. I'd sort of expect that when you're dealing with sums of money that size there would be some grown-ups in the room.

You just stated Goodharts law in effect.*

[*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Also known as Goodharts law.