[mammalfriend]

Agreed. And I'm also not sure why building a VC-fundable business is used interchangeably with building a business that rewards the founder(s). I've seen a lot of exits of VC-funded companies where founders received little more than a rich employment package.

But the largest return I've seen for a founder was a solo founder who raised no capital at all.

Has anyone run the numbers on tech company founder ROI across funding type and amount yet?