Entrepreneurship is the least risky thing to do, when you have done so much in your field from the bottom up that it becomes your best option. At that point at

Entrepreneurship is the least risky thing to do, when you have done so much in your field from the bottom up that it becomes your best option. At that point at a salaried job you'd risk earning little, learning less, being a subject to a bad manager, wasting too much productive time in bureaucracy, or sinking to irrelevance. I started building for the web at 13, had a freelance business for 5years, paid for college by building fundraising videos for another 4, did non-profit for a year part time, UX consulting for two, front-end architecture at large scale sites for two more, product management with a lot of financial and metrics success in a senior role for a big brand for the last two years, and spent some time at a VC (by age 28). At that point nothing else made sense but building the start-up I've always wanted to use (for about $1000 in legal and server fees beyond my personal time).