Entrepreneur porn is a dangerous fantasy
&quot;Money won’t make you happy&quot;<p>I disagree with this.  I&#x27;ve been running my own company for a little over 5 years.  Not having to worry about my rent and being able to live a comfortable lifestyle has made me really happy.<p>If I made $100 million and didn&#x27;t ever have to worry about money again, I definitely would be happier.  It&#x27;s the peace of mind that I&#x27;m working toward.<p>But, the money isn&#x27;t the main thing that makes me happy.  The development challenges and systems that I build to run my company is what I really enjoy.  The money is just a nice side-effect.<p>I agree with the rest of the article.  I had an ex-business partner that got his idea of a startup from the stories he sees online.  Everything we did had to &#x27;change the world&#x27;, regardless of the business model or practicality.<p>I had many hours of discussions about this and had to continually convince him we needed some sort of business model.  His response was always: &quot;We will get funding&quot;...with no users, traffic, business model, or a decent MVP.<p>At some point I finally convinced him and as soon as it got down to the hard work, and he didn&#x27;t see immediate results, he got discouraged.  He thought that somehow if we just built something, we would have thousands of users in a couple of weeks.<p>I realized that even if whatever we worked on succeeded, he probably wouldn&#x27;t be a good fit in the next stage of the company and I would be spending more and more of my time fighting these ideas.  I had to end the partnership and he ended up getting a job.<p>Not everyone should own a business.