I once worked for a small but very profitable tech company. The owner pretty much had to sit back and rake in the money.

He was, however, a huge asshole and alcoholic. Wasn’t able to let it function without him. Went from a couple of million dollars profit to closed when I quit. He couldn’t find other devs. Tried to outsource it but just failed.

I quit because he tried to treat me like shit. Like he treated his other employees behind the scenes (the guy was very sneaky). So I left.

Then tried to offer me a cut but I wasn’t gonna partner with such asshole. There isn’t enough money in this world.

Last I heard he was trying to launch a similar product but failing horribly.

The product wasn’t complex but required specific knowledge of different things. So it was rare to find people with that knowledge who were also effective.