In terms of big exits, Marc Randolph, Netflix's founder was married well before he started the company and had kids at the time. In terms of (much) smaller exi

In terms of big exits, Marc Randolph, Netflix's founder was married well before he started the company and had kids at the time. In terms of (much) smaller exits, I'm the child of a startup founder. I was about age 8 and it was sold when I was about 25. It was never more than 20 people, and my dad was President as the founding engineer. It was enough for a solid middle class childhood for myself and a sibling in a VHCOL area and my dad and mom are very comfortable in retirement. It helped that my mom was stay at home, I think. My dad bootstrapped his company and had to work on it nights when I was young after his paying job before they had enough customers that they could go full-time. They never took funding. He made time for us on the weekends, but my mom did all the weekday stuff