Funny, I am often curious from the opposite tack and wonder why some people want to do serial project or freelance work and never join a firm. Thinking up apps

Funny, I am often curious from the opposite tack and wonder why some people want to do serial project or freelance work and never join a firm. Thinking up apps and launching prototypes is fun, sure -- but it's also the easy part if you're a little creative. The hard -- and valuable -- part is growing it into a business, successfully scaling it, building a company, and all that goes with those things. I think if you looked on average at people who "just start startups and bolt" vs. people who help build startups beyond their first phases, the latter tend to participate more in the equity upside. I can't imagine the appeal of being the former. To the OP -- you don't actually say why you don't like the idea of being tied down. Can you elaborate?