You make a lot of core business decisions based on whether you are swinging for the fences or building a business from the beginning, you can pretend not to dec

You make a lot of core business decisions based on whether you are swinging for the fences or building a business from the beginning, you can pretend not to decide but nearly every decision you make at the beginning of a startup is based on this choice. You can pivot of course, if you stumble on a great revenue source that's small in scale but growing steadily and you aren't getting crazy traction then a startup probably would become a business. But there are legitimate reasons to not become a business and keep chasing the big payout. In real life you don't find the optimal recurring revenue model, you find options with tradeoffs.