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I guess the headscratcher for me is that I can't understand why someone would start a company if they didn't think they'd enjoy running it. The odds of growing to the point where someone will buy your business for a substantial amount (read: order of magnitude greater than a year's sales) is much less than being able to grow it yourself and live off the revenues.

I guess that's why I don't play the lottery.

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I can't understand why someone would start a company if they didn't think they'd enjoy running it.

I'm not proposing that. As I said in the essay, running Viaweb was the most interesting job I'd had. It just wasn't the most interesting thing I could imagine doing.

That's the question you have to answer, if you're ambitious: not just "do I like what I'm doing?" but "do I like what I'm doing more than anything else I could be doing?"

some are good initiator but not the operator for the rest of the life ... also people who have tons of ideas are driven by bringing does ideas in to reality ... they love being a king-maker rather than being a king for only one kingdom and run the show (thats boring for them) - they like to have more than one kingdom and then find someone to run with it.... i think pg himself is the right example for this.

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