Honestly, despite years of thinking otherwise, I have absolutely no interest in building a business. Wanted to do the startup thing, tried bootstrapping a mobil

Honestly, despite years of thinking otherwise, I have absolutely no interest in building a business. Wanted to do the startup thing, tried bootstrapping a mobile app consultancy around 2008, etc. I went entirely broke (after having been a grad student, so no great feat, really) trying to convince myself to do the things I knew I needed to do to build a business. After a few years elsewhere, I now work on Google Compute Engine. In particular I'm tech lead for the team that builds our virtual NIC and hypervisor-level networking features. I get to spend most of my days focussing almost entirely on how to make a piece of technology better and faster for our customers. Moreover, I get to do this with a set of team of people who are all outstandingly bright, polite, and dedicated to our common cause. Sometimes a business case has to be made when particular decisions will move the needle on costs, efficiency, revenue, etc., but that's a far cry from having to actually build/run the business itself. I very much like working at Google in 2016. I get to work on technology and witness clear customer benefits without having to worry about building/running the business, meaning I also get to have a solid work/life balance.