I have some projects I'd love to make my primary. I love the idea of starting up good tech, particulalry good tech with an open source benevolent core. But it

I have some projects I'd love to make my primary. I love the idea of starting up good tech, particulalry good tech with an open source benevolent core. But it feels like it takes so much money to make even a small team. I want a long run way, to get really far on, with good people. I dont see myself as having a fast road to profitability. It's so hard to imagine how to start. And it feels so much more daunting to create an interesting & engaged environment. I dont mind training & boosting promising folk, but it just feels like even that takes soo much money, & more-so that it's going to be so much harder to bring out genuine geekiness in people. As much as an idea, I crave a good culture- intense & chasing something new & exciting & good for the world- but the pure geekiness of computing feels so diluted, so underwater. It feels so improbable that those around me will have that old obvioushbut-secret geek-club feeling, that getting great at computing is radical & empowering & ennobling. I want so much to care about & believe in my employees, but it's so vastly probable it'd become just another company of deluded/decoupled spin-based management & another detached workforce. We all deserve better, we all deserve realer, we all should have real things to care about & apply ourselves to, but there's no practical way to ask for that kind of commitment. Unless I can really make the work fully obviously clearly sell itself.