[cynusx]

I think that's good that he doesn't sell, having built a enormous marketing presence and gained market trust is only a minor step away from actually monetizing that. Selling what he has right now does indeed come with golden handcuffs (sucks), but also any purchase price would come in vastly under the projects' potential.

He could easily leverage this marketing presence to build a security SaaS company, create a huge conference, launch a big consultancy,...

If you value independence then running your own profitable balance sheet is the best thing you can do.

Hell, it wouldn't even be hard to attract talent to the cause at the point he's at.

[dewey]

> He could easily leverage this marketing presence to build a security SaaS company, create a huge conference, launch a big consultancy,...

If it would be so easy it would've been done already.

[cynusx]

He doesn't have the plan and associated funding and the people in place.

Maybe easy is the wrong word, but he's definitely well-positioned to reap more reward of what he achieved so far