# Trust-building timescale and budgets tend to be similar in different domains In many different high-risk domains, people are expected to show results in about 18 months with $1m. ### Examples * [[The initial exploratory tranche of a DARPA program is approximately $1.5m]] * [[A new professor needs about $1.5m to get going]] * [[The average startup seed around is around $1.5m]] * The initial cost of the Transistor program at [[Bell Labs]] was ($2020)4.866 m which is larger than the $1.5m number but same order of magnitude ### Questions * Is this because that’s how much we are willing to trust people with or is there a fundamental thing where there’s a phase change or something? * Is this because that’s how much we are willing to trust people with or is there a fundamental thing where there’s a phase change or something? ### Related * [[Trust takes time]]