[zoltar92]

It's ironic... Doesn't it seem businesses you build with the goal of an exit turn into lifestyle businesses-- while the ones that you build as a lifestyle business tend to be the ones you get the most offers for. I guess it goes back to the YC teachings of "Build something people want". I think therefore you need to strive and be happy for your company to be a lifestyle business, even if your ultimate goal is an exit- or else you'll never have the passion to actually turn it into something worth exiting. I chose option 3 because I think every business is therefore a bit of both. Because conversely, even a business which someone builds as a lifestyle-- will eventually exit if the "price is right".

For anyone that's going to claim snapchat as an example of this not being true-- I'd argue they're waiting for a higher valuation or to monetize and then go public-- both exit strategies