Just noting that starting a company is a huge amount of often unrewarding work and unless you have a business co-founder you're going to be doing a lot of non-S

Just noting that starting a company is a huge amount of often unrewarding work and unless you have a business co-founder you're going to be doing a lot of non-SWE work which you may find frustrating. Even with a business co-founder you're likely going to be wearing a lot of non-SWE hats. It's definitely gotten easier to start a company, with all sorts of tools and services to make it easier but that is a relative term. It's still long days, constant sales (selling the idea to yourself, VCs, potential employees, etc), and dark nights wondering why you're bothering. It definitely takes some hubris engineers don't always seem to have (which isn't a bad thing).