David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

And it's such a...

fascinating winner-takes-all mentality that unless you dominate everyone else in all the ways you've lost, when so much of life is far more open to multiple winners, where we can end up with a business that have made hundreds of millions of dollars over the years, and we've kept much of that to do whatever we want, and that that's enough.

That's good.

That's great.

That's actually...

Something worth aspiring to?

Certainly it should be a path for someone to consider choosing rather than the VC unicorn and bust mentality that dominates everything.

Mojito Island is a mirage.

It always was.

There is no retirement for ambitious people.

There is no just sitting back on the beach and sipping a mojito for what?

For two weeks before you go damn crazy and want to get back into the action?

That's exactly what happens to most people who have the capacity to build those kinds of exits.

I've never seen.

I shouldn't say never.

I've almost never seen anyone be able to pull that off.

Yet so many think that that's why they're doing it.

That's why they're sacrificing everything.

Because once I get to the finish line, I'm golden.

I've won.