"building a product" and "building a company" are two different things, but i agree that for some kinds of products and scale, you need a company to make it rea

"building a product" and "building a company" are two different things, but i agree that for some kinds of products and scale, you need a company to make it really successful. I think about all the "lifestyle businesses" that are examples of products that don't need full on "companies" to exist. I think that if you are passionate about creating a product for people to use, then you will see through on all the other aspects of making that product survive and be used. Otherwise, what you're interested in is "development", and big places like Google will give you plenty of experience in doing that. This is not a value judgement. Personally, I have no problem working at a company where I'm paid to engineer products from the ground up. Maintaining things is boring. But that's just me.