_Maybe_ if your software business idea had at its core some fundamentally hard problem and you needed expensive hardware to be able to run your service fast eno

_Maybe_ if your software business idea had at its core some fundamentally hard problem and you needed expensive hardware to be able to run your service fast enough to support all your customers... but even then you could probably get by on cloud providers and being a bit slow, if what you did was useful enough to be worth waiting for. Then just upgrade as you get more customers paying more money.