[Xylakant]

The idea that someone that is good at making decisions that make a company successful would always start their own company is wrong on many levels. Running a company is about much more than making a product successful. There’s all the nitty gritty stuff that constantly bogs you down from legal, tax, finance, interpersonal stuff in the company landing on your plate. Some of that can be handed off to an accountant or lawyer, but you still need to learn at least the basics of it to understand what they’re trying to tell you and decide based on that advice. You need access to capital, sometimes a lot. Your risk profile is entirely different than as an employee. Many companies just fail with a total loss. Many people can’t afford a total loss.

There’s a strong bias in tech circles to view the outliers that made it from garage to unicorn, but they’re just that: outliers. Don’t make the mistake of considering them the norm.