> I've spent my 20s constantly oscillating between going broke trying to build a scalable startup and earning good money by working freelance. I think the "sca

> I've spent my 20s constantly oscillating between going broke trying to build a scalable startup and earning good money by working freelance. I think the "scalable startup" fixation is the worst legacy of our industry. There has always been an enormous professional world of people in many fields start either a solo consultancy or an agency/firm/practice and by their 40s they are paying themselves somewhere in the six figures. "Will it scale" in the VC sense is not one of their concerns. They still get rich.