I'm assuming that the founders they're looking for are already on a Series A or have a nice cushion of savings or positive cashflow? I'm making 5x lower than I previously did (thanks for reminding me!) after bootstrapping through all my savings and such.

TBH it seems like they're doing a survey to confirm a story they've already written on founder successes. That's a good, rags-to-riches story but the hard numbers is that 80% of startups will fail within 3 years and those founders will be financially burned.