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Your response feels very real. You can do the things you want to do AND THEN start a company that is more in tune with what you want to do then versus when you started your old startup. Sure you don't have your old startup anymore, but you have something newer and more exciting.

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> Sure you don't have your old startup anymore, but you have something newer and more exciting.

or with the newly found money, create a competitor to the startup you just sold! And this time, you don't need to sell out, because you already did on the previous one, and have FU money to truely realize your vision...

That might be possible but a competent buyer will have you agree to a non-compete for a given amount of time (likely a couple years) before a sale is finalized.

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