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But no investor wants to put their money in those.

• tclancy 8y ago
  Sure they do, they just don't get written about here or glorified. But they exist and they're happy.
• parthdesai 8y ago
  It's definitely more difficult but you can always try to bootstrap or take small investments and try to grow organically instead of going for 10x growth.
  • brendanmc6 8y ago
    This just seems so much more attractive to me on a personal level. I invested a stupid amount of my time to build a webapp just on a unproven hunch that a market exists for it (i.e. if it did, I would have been a customer). Now that I'm switching to founder mode and exploring paths forward, the thought of taking a sum just a fraction as big as some of these companies is horrifying to me. I don't want to spend my time and energy selling, and then later defending, a fantasy to investors. Nor the crushing anxiety that must come with that. I just want to build something that the economy values for it's utility, and pay my rent in the process. Though I guess after acheiving that, I'd probably start looking up...
    • parthdesai 8y ago
      Definitely, i would rather earn little less and work for myself or someone sane rather than working for someone who is looking to make 10x return anyhow.