I feel like I dodged a bullet by not taking VC money for Twiddla back when everybody was fighting to give it to us. Considering how happy my life is now, and h

I feel like I dodged a bullet by not taking VC money for Twiddla back when everybody was fighting to give it to us. Considering how happy my life is now, and how often you see the Technical Founder get pushed out of his own company in place of a board-approved CTO, I don't imagine it would have left me net happier. Best case might have been an acquihire, a few years couching it out waiting to vest at a big company, then a medium sized payday. Actual case was a (different) bootstrapped product and a bit of consulting that was a lot more fun and left me in a similar spot financially, 10 years later. Anything less than best case, I'd be responding to the actual question posed here today.