Why did you choose Startup Life over 9 to 5 job?
Startups, entrepreneurship and 'being your own boss' is all cool, until you experience the struggles of building a product, marketing it, handing support requests.
For a lot of people it's a shocker. If you are a thrill seeker, you may actually enjoy the process of building your business.
Those of you who're building a business - share your reason to choose the 'hard way'.
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Thanks for posting this @thebigk.
Here are my 2 cents on this topic.
I became an entrepreneur because I craved the freedom to chart my own path and bring my visions to life. With Garnet AI, I’m building an AI-powered platform that automates compliance checks and document parsing, cutting vendor onboarding time in half and keeping revenue moving.
I chose the “hard way” of startup life because I couldn’t ignore the daily grind sales and compliance teams face with endless back-and-forth on spreadsheets, weeks of waiting for vendor approvals, and stalled deals through no fault of the sales rep.
Sure, startup life means longer hours, steep learning curves, and countless small setbacks, but it also means scaling impact beyond a single team, shaping product direction in real time, and constantly tackling new challenges from novel regulatory nuances to integration requests. Creating something that truly transforms how businesses onboard vendors makes every late night worth it.
It's deeper just the earning potential for me, it's the whole having an idea and bringing it to reality, while also contributing something to somebody's life.
It's such a dopamine hit and creating something with purpose easily overrides what a 9-5 is to me. If that structure works for you or it's more tolerable for you, then there's no issue there, there's a lot more stress going down the entrepreneur route and you lose that linear path to success for sure, no guarantees either.