IMO reasons to starts a company >You deeply give a shit about what you’re doing, you actually feel good going into work, and every win is an emotional high. > Seeing a thing you willed into existence help people is awesome, especially when you talk to people and they’re ecstatic about what you’re building. > You have way more control over the situation and visibility within the company. When you’re an employee sometimes it feels like things “happen” to you, when you’re running the company, you at least feel agency over the situation. > Winning as a team with your employees/partners is basically the closest you’ll get to feeling like you won the Superbowl. > You’ll attract people that share the same values as you and meet really awesome people along the way. Even if the company doesn’t work out, it really is about the friends you made along the way. > Each day feels like fires are burning but sometimes you’ll have random anime style life flashbacks where you suddenly realize how many things you got done in 5 years. > Everyone awkwardly skates past this, but it’s awesome financially if things work out! In a regular job your exposure to the upside of the company doing well is relatively limited; it doesn’t get higher risk and higher financial reward than running the company. I’m trying to get rich enough that I have to track 181 days in a primary residence and my kids turn out maladjusted. > It is absolutely DEVASTATING to the haters when you’re winning. I keep a couple faces in the back of my head, you know who you are.