If it helps with your inspiration, here's my story: I launched my company (Wingify) on HN when I was 22 and bootstrapped for last 8 years. Today we're not Qualt

If it helps with your inspiration, here's my story: I launched my company (Wingify) on HN when I was 22 and bootstrapped for last 8 years. Today we're not Qualtrics scale, but we're doing ~$20mn and have never made a loss in our history. My guess is that businesses like mine are more common than VC funded ones but we only get to see VC funded ones because that's what the news covers.