Tyler Tringas

Well, it really is.

And I say the American dream, you know, it's a rhetorical device.

Obviously, this is a global phenomenon.

But, you know, the general idea of the American dream, right, the being successful, the white picket fence, all that sort of like just baseline level of success that many people aspire to, I think is really converging around the idea of running success.

a you know profitable remote friendly software or technology enabled company that essentially you can run from anywhere in the world uh and you know it makes money while you sleep and you know maybe one day you can sort of sell it for a life-changing amount of money or maybe you just you know run it for the rest of your life but i think you know really that kind of entrepreneurship is is the american dream in a way that maybe a generation ago it might be very you know um

very job driven, right?

You know, become an attorney, become a successful doctor, that sort of thing.

Not that those are not important anymore, but I think the core thing that a lot of people aspire to, and I found it through my writing and through Twitter and stuff like that, is this, you know, running a successful online business, you know?

Yeah, that's a great question and a great distinction.

It is the American dream because I think it is also quite achievable, you know, with all of the caveats that it is, you know, harder for certain people than others.

And it still takes a level of skill and sometimes it takes a level of capital and a push to get there.

It is one of the most permissionless paths to success I think that exists right now.

You don't necessarily need a degree.

You don't need to go through a rigorous hiring process.

You typically don't need a ton of capital at least to get started.

A lot of times you can build it with what you can put on a credit card month by month.

The on-ramp is one of the most accessible in the economy.

And on the other side of the equation, the number of opportunities, I think, is just dramatically multiplying.

So it's not the case that

you know, a handful of software companies are going to scoop up all of the opportunity.