I'm fascinated by your comment. I'm making a few assumptions from the "CEO of midsized company" and "quick profits" plan that "worked out quite well" about you.

I'm fascinated by your comment. I'm making a few assumptions from the "CEO of midsized company" and "quick profits" plan that "worked out quite well" about you. It's awesome to see that it worked for you but I think some of us (maybe the OP included) are still pursuing the "steady inflow that's big enough". For me is quite concrete, getting rid of student loans and mortgage. At that point my monthly expenses would be sub-$1k, which makes pursuing something that fascinates me a lot more feasible. Thus I come out with a critique and a question... It seems to me that the advice to work on something that "fascinates you" would be a stage two since there could be circumstance that do require just going for the money. The question then is, how did you made it swimming with the big whales? Was is knowledge that you had/acquired as a CEO? I've been looking more and more into "boring business" as in, not innovative or trying to change the world, but instead capture some of the profit that some huge vendors/industries are already moving, you know, where 5 or 6 figures is petty cash, but I'm not really sure where to look. Again, props to you on getting to a place that I'm hoping to get myself :-)