I personally have no interest in taking VC funding (to be honest, I feel like this defeats the purpose of founding a company, which is to have control over it)

I personally have no interest in taking VC funding (to be honest, I feel like this defeats the purpose of founding a company, which is to have control over it) but currently own a small company (bootstraped side gig) and plan to move to full time when the startup I am currently a FTE at exits.