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You only get to live once. The only limited thing that you have is your time. If you wake up every morning with the passion for the work you are doing, then you are lucky. A lot of people work at a job that they don't like; this includes engineers at top companies.

If you love your job as founder of a startup, I would suggest that keep doing what you love to do. To be successful, you need following:

1. User/Customer Empathy 2. Move Fast in the right direction 3. Focus on hiring and retaining good/great engineers.

When you know that you are failing on any of the above, then you need to think about the exit strategy.