> I do not currently have the ability to not have a full time job It sounds like you've had a stable job for a while already, yet you are not in a position to

> I do not currently have the ability to not have a full time job It sounds like you've had a stable job for a while already, yet you are not in a position to survive for a while without income. How will this be different in the next few years? When will you have such ability? > I would be losing [...] a lot of the upside monetary benefit if this becomes successful How much will you be losing if you never get to try? Or only get to do it when it is too late and others have already done it? > [...] technology platform I and my team built Building a technology platform and establishing a business are two very different things. Do you want to build a company or build the product you've been dreaming of? If you found a company (especially if you do it alone) most of your time and energy will be focused on the former, not on the latter. If building this platform is the most exciting work you can think of doing and you don't see dropping everything right now to pursue that dream, my advise here would be to do it with this company. Negotiate good incentives and convince yourself that you wouldn't have done it by yourself just like you haven't for the last few years you've been thinking about it. This way you will be able to focus all your energy on actually building the thing, and you will have a nice compensation if it pans out. If it doesn't, you will have at least tried and possibly dodged financial ruin in the process.