Your assumption is 1) You currently return an ROI to a company plus 2) motivation/interest makes you a good bet. 3) You alone make a complete business. These d

Your assumption is 1) You currently return an ROI to a company plus 2) motivation/interest makes you a good bet. 3) You alone make a complete business. These dont have to combine in that way. Points; 1) there can be significant dead weight in larger salaried roles. Salary existing doesn't always equate positive ROI. And someone one can be very good employee in a structured enviroment and not in a more open startup enviroment. 2) motivation doesn't equate success, sometimes the opposite as people pursue the interesting vs the economically realistic. 3) As a salaried person you come as a team. You alone are likely to be missing required parts for a functioning business, kinda like buying tires and wondering why the car doesn't run.