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I think this is key when people talk about "ownership". Actually owning a product means that if it fails you're holding the bag, if it succeeds you take the profits. And you have full control over it. Unless a company actually wants to do this I wish they wouldn't use that english word.

Trying to hire an employee and tell this story that they "own" the product is just silly. It's like companies that try to describe themselves as a family - just kind of a weird and incorrect use of a real word that has other meaning.

Ownership means you have real skin in the corp, your payout goes up or down, hopefully somewhat proportional to your hard work.

'Ownership' is taking on those same stresses and responsibilities without any of the potential pay-offs... or at best a marginal rounding error.

It's not surprising that few people want to work as a founder but get compensated like an employee.

I certainly did a ton of traveling/speaking/meeting with customers/sometimes late night calls in different time zones/etc. but I still treated it as colloquially a "day job," albeit not really a 9-5 one.