I sense a lot of naive optimism in your approach.<p>You understand the goal of any business, especially an internet business, is to become a monopoly right?<p>Look at Amazon, Google, FB, etc. They only became profitable once they became monopolies, and thus could set their own prices based on whatever metrics they chose.<p>The reason startups take outside funding is so that they can become a monopoly in a given market, and then charge customers whatever they want.<p>Don&#x27;t fall for the marketing hype. Startups don&#x27;t save the world. Scientists, doctors and inventors do. Startups just make a few people very, very rich at the expense of their customers by selling them mostly crap they don&#x27;t need or want, using psychological manipulation (i.e. marketing).<p>Once you understand that this isn&#x27;t some noble quest, you can finally begin to understand how to play the game (of thrones).