[julianeon]

It's funny that I read to the end of the article and thought "But the logical next step for this type of person isn't to have shown all this agency, and then use it to work for someone else.* It's to start your own profitable side project and then your own company, a natural extension of everything else you've done until that point." So it was funny to read this and realize that actually is what ended up happening. Congratulations!

*the exception here would be if someone throws so much money at you it would be unwise to say no; however, this is rare enough that I think most people of the self-taught audodidact variety can assume it won't happen.