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I find your comment amusing because, of course you can. And famously, the people that made it big did just that.

But I get it, I'm like you. Also had a college loan to pay off, later kids.... So I stuck to the day-job, read about the high-flyers and work instead on trying to get-rich-slowly.

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> And famously, the people that made it big did just that.

And not so famously the 90%+ of entrepeneurs who failed and lost everything.

Survivorship Bias is sooo rampant in SV.

On a similar note, I've noticed that some of the successful entrepreneur's I know took success in one area and applied it to another, often in the form of re-investing their savings. Watching someone go from salaried to having a million in savings, and then investing _all_ of it into a new business that's not guaranteed to succeed... I question whether I could do that. A million dollars is enough to retire ahead of schedule, would I be willing to risk it all and go back to a salaried employee with no savings? Yet I've noticed many successful people do this, often repeatedly.

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