* I choose what to build. I love chatting with my CEO about what will help our customers, what will make our site better, what's feasible, what's already out t

* I choose what to build. I love chatting with my CEO about what will help our customers, what will make our site better, what's feasible, what's already out there that we can leverage, etc. It's much more satisfying than I found writing code at e.g. MSFT to be (not that that wasn't also fun). * I choose how to build it. I doubt I'd be able to write production code in CoffeeScript at a big company (or even a medium-sized company). * I think learning to be a CTO at 24, having to have employees and work with non-tech people, forces me to pick up more transferable life skills than being a software engineer at a big corp. * I don't think I'm in that 90%. Of course, no one does, but even knowing that I still don't. :)