What was it like for founders? Your investors could choose to give you some degree of autonomy, but ultimately it was their choice; your life’s work was not truly your own. All that time you could never get back, spent in the pursuit of a foolish cause, governed by forces out of your control. Your hopes and dreams over-determined by a system requiring you to sacrifice your time for the goal of getting your investors a return on their investment. Not to say that founders deserved more sympathy — even the failed entrepreneurs would probably be fine; the industry was tolerant of failure to a
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