> It's clear who values their time more than the founder & employees. Bootstrapping means you control the destiny and a higher chance to pocket more than a C-Su

> It's clear who values their time more than the founder & employees. Bootstrapping means you control the destiny and a higher chance to pocket more than a C-Suite's salary combined. So you make 100k every month from your bootstrapped business but you never IPO, you can buy the world's smallest violin. As someone full-time bootstrapping, and who will launch having bootstrapped, my take-away is that I wish I took seed money to be able to pay a couple people to go on this journey with me. I'm a solo technical founder and while I found people willing to make (considerably) under their market value, engineering is well paid and good make-problems-disappear non-technical people are rare finds.