The key words in your comment are "chance" and "possibility". If it really was just a simple matter of when you're putting in the time, plenty more people woul

The key words in your comment are "chance" and "possibility". If it really was just a simple matter of when you're putting in the time, plenty more people would do the 9 years of intense work for 36 years of freedom later on. Thing is, for lots of people a year or two of very intense work on a startup yields nothing but the learning experience of running a company.