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He sounds plenty motivated. He's willing to start his own business to chase a $5 million dollar idea.

In a knowledge based role, the company is paying you to churn out solutions to their problems because the technology stack is setup to serve the CTO's purposes.

He has to start a new company to change the setup.

Your annoyance sounds like sour grapes.

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Exactly what GP and you are saying.

If I am not the CTO, I am just a servant (based on the word "service"), whom you are paying to execute to do what you deem needs to be done.

And no one reaches this level of cynicism in one day. Things almost always go the non-ideal way- week after week, month after month.

And most people are in employment because they have to. Most people aren’t passionate about their current employment.

Sour grapes at somebody's imaginary $5M business?

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