[ggm]

People only tend to see dotcom successes. Most small startups soak money and never deliver an ROI. Finding a niche which has sustaining business, even to on-sell is notoriously hard.

There are a million clone apps on the marketplace for any successful game, making 2c per view ad revenue. I don't want to succumb to that model of income stream any more than I want to be a passive income landholder invester/landlord. So this goes to the second reason I dont have my own company: It can feel like 'rent-seeking' when you live in the OSI world, and then chose to use the free stacks, free tools, free cloud, to develop a product you then make others pay for.

Ie "motivations differ"