I won't suggest that asymmetric effort to capture value might not be counterproductive in some instances, but let's not suggest that founders view their interac

I won't suggest that asymmetric effort to capture value might not be counterproductive in some instances, but let's not suggest that founders view their interactions with professional investors through rose-colored glasses either. As for bootstrapping: sadly, lots of young and inexperienced entrepreneurs underestimate how much money they'll need to execute. That's not a control issue; that's a starting-a-business-when-you-have-no-business-starting-a-business issue. Finally, the word "big" is too subjective to have any real meaning here. If you told a group of first-time entrepreneurs that they could own 100% of a highly-profitable multi-million dollar a year business, most would probably tell you that's "big enough." And even though many of them fly under the radar, there are a countless number of those businesses in and out of the tech world.