Yeah 20 years ago shortly after .com blowup. Try that today and it will be more difficult for many reasons, namely there now exist VCs that will look to fund your competitors. There would be no Jira. There would be some better product made by amazon that everyone is using.
I went from the highest-high at “no jira” to the lowest low at “product made by Amazon”
These are noteworthy articles because of how rare it is - akin to articles of Silicon Valley titans that didn't complete college. We point to their experience as novelty, not as practical advice to ourselves or others.