You don't think investors have skin in the game? The investors take on the risk of losing 100% of their investment if the company doesn't succeed. And it's a real risk: the vast majority of all startups fail. What comparable risk do the founders and employees take? If the company fails, they've been paid a salary for their work and can go find another job.
Do you expect the investors to just give you millions of dollars without any say in how it's spent? Even if you had a track record of having founded several successful companies in the past (which most startup founders don't), an investor wouldn't give you millions of dollars to play with without having some control over the risk.
If you want absolute control over how the money is spent, finance the company out of your own savings, not with other people's money. Lots of companies are bootstrapped from their founders' assets, and these founders completely own and control their companies. But you can't have it both ways. If you take money from investors, you need to give up some ownership and control.