Company #2: Brought on two business partners after being in business for three years solo. Sold them my interest. Returned a couple of years later as their VP E

Company #2: Brought on two business partners after being in business for three years solo. Sold them my interest. Returned a couple of years later as their VP Eng. but the spark had gone and they had become, in my mind, risk averse. Company #3: Did okay, sold it off as I knew it wouldn't grow. Company #4: Co-founder. Did pretty well. Sold my interest to my two partners. Company #6: Engineer #2 - cheated out of $2M in shares when the company was acquired. Company #7: Co-founder/Engineer #1 - cheated out of it when it took off like a rocket after eight months and they decided they didn't need any more US engineering and could outsource software development for $8/hr on that newfangled Craigslist. Acquired a year later by BigCorp. Company #11: Solo founder - could never get the two people I had as early employees that I was grooming for becoming partners to stop fighting each other or me. Company lasted 7 years. Didn't survive the 2008 economic downturn. Company #13: Engineer #1/CTO - acquihired after 16 months but I was about ready to walk due to the CEO turning in to a raging arsehole the moment that big money started flowing in. Company #14: Co-founder/CTO - got in to bed with the wrong co-founder/CEO - my mistake, should have vetted him more. I explain that we euphemistically "ran out of runway" but in reality I took his sticky fingers out of my pocket. Also, I didn't like being referred to as "you're just a programmer." Company #15: Solo founder - did well, but was burning out and wrapped it up to concentrate on #16 at the request of my business partners. Company #16: Did great - acquired by Big Corp against my will due to my two business partners (brought on after we were doing well) decided on a "hostile takeover" whereby we'd sell and they'd make money or they would drive the company to bankruptcy. Therapist says I have PTSD and should consider a different career or avoid co-founders/business partners in the future. Company #20: Engineering hire #2 - so far so good. Three months in. No arseholes so far. Company #21: ?