I assume that refers to dropping the F-bomb on the (lame|stupid|unappreciative|mean) boss that you toiled under pre-retirement.
Now, if you got your money from doing a startup, who gets your F-bomb? :P
Now, if you got your money from doing a startup, who gets your F-bomb? :P
Everyone who picked on you at high school, everyone who picked on you at primary school, the disapproving family members who told you to go get a real job, the insecure best friend who constantly undermined your confidence, and generally anyone who ever doubted your ability to finish what you started in style.
At least, that's my motivation. It may not be very healthy, but it gets the job done.
But I most of all want to create something to help people and I get very satisfied by solving problems.
You could call it a disproportionate competitive streak allied with over-sensitivity about having been wronged in the past (and there's not a human being out there that hasn't been "wronged" by their definition of the term). Combine that with a good dose of competence, skill, talent, etc, and a bit of inferiority complex (which is natural for gifted people, see the "dots and holes" article from a while back, link below), and you have the perfect recipe for someone with that irrepressible need to show the world what he's made of.
It's no bad thing. That's how most progress was made, I think. Thomas Edison and Newton were definitely both competitive jerks with inferiority complexes. Hardly bad company to be in.
http://books.google.com/books?id=H-GfO0jkBLsC&pg=PA38...
God damn, but google books links are ghastly. At any rate, the saying goes way, way before that.