I had to work full time and go to school at night to get my education. I used to begrudge people who had it "easy", but anymore I feel like the grit and self-co

I had to work full time and go to school at night to get my education. I used to begrudge people who had it "easy", but anymore I feel like the grit and self-confidence I got from struggling and succeeding has paid dividends down the road. I still think I would be better off coming from a rich family. Grit is nice but you can't call grit and have them cover your rent. Another thing I got good at was managing a budget and learning to make do with less. I don't know his upbringing or where he comes from, but there is $$ coming from somewhere. I guess you could save up a lot of money working at Google? But he previously established he spends $6k/mo on personal expenses. Doesn't seem like a "retire early" person. This is exactly why I don't compare myself to the Zuckerbergs and Musks of the world: How am I supposed to compete with this? I feel for this person. I'm sorry he had to learn some of these lessons the hard way, but this just screams "wantrepreneur" > Outsourcing I may be missing something but this just seems loony-tunes to me. What is the business he is trying to create? How is outsourcing all of your tasks "lean" at all? > Strategy / Products Other people have pointed out: Find a product people are demanding and build it. Launch it as soon as possible. Iterate on it and delight your users. Don't make it an easy idea that someone can just copy. A keto diet search engine doesn't even pass the smell test to me. My fitness app ( edit: The fitness app I use, not own ) Lifesum can do that. I'm sure all of the others can as well. Why would you create a product in a crowded market with huge established competitors? > Travis CI: -$1,419 To me, that is a lot of money. You can run a Jenkins server for $10/mo on Digital Ocean and get 90% of the same features. It's not hard if you just need something pragmatic. Heck, you can even automatically spin the instance down during off-hours and pay even less than that. > Coveralls You can just generate HTML documents for this, you don't need to pay them to do it. > Ther personal expenses I cannot imagine spending 6k/mo on personal expenses. WOW! I thought Portland, Oregon was expensive! > Buying a house Also, why BUY a house? Now you have an asset you have to get rid of at some point. You now have loan payments to pay that will never go away unless you manage to sell the house. Buying a house is often NOT an investment, especially in a tiny little town. The most expensive house is the one you can't sell. I mean, I guess maybe the house was VERY CHEAP.