Why do such people with that vast experience always stay employed, keep critisizing but never start their own company and show us how to run a business the right way?
This is fairly privileged silliness. That capital is how you pay rent and feed yourself and your family while you actually build a business. Those of us (and I am one) who are able to safely and effectively live off of savings to build a business are the vanishing exception, not the rule, in America.
The next person who says "just work nights and weekends" is telegraphing how richly they morally deserve one upside. "Burn everything else in your life to probably still fail at building a company" is gross, nasty advice. And, coupled with the continual throwing out of any temperament filter with regards to whether one should create a business--at best it is a failure of compassion and empathy.
I know business is most of the times an opportunistic game but I encountered often enough situations where people and companies didn't act 100% opportunistic. And you remember and recommend those people or companies.
>As someone who’s lived in 11 countries, worked in 10+ different companies and started a few others over the last 20 years I know the feeling all too well.