My key realization was that I could be a reporter and also an entrepreneur—a “reportrepreneur,” if you will. I have long maintained that journalists who aren’t business minded will be subject to the vicissitudes of a market that is shrinking by the second and will not offer the control they need. That is why I embraced the risk-taking part of tech. Now, I get to make a healthy living and, more importantly, I do what I want when I want to do it. Like Scott, I am a bad employee, so I stopped being one long ago.
