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First company with 23, sold with 33.

Second + third company founded with 36, sold at 46.

I was the software engineer in the founders team, built alot by myself, even in the last years with a tech department of 30 people.

After doing nothing for 1.5 years, I am back with a new startup, being the only developer. Because I love it, and I am good at it!

It's my passion...

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Interesting, thanks! I feel like that kind of confirms my position: you're not someone who has the same passion for coding, you have a stronger passion for building, leading and selling tech companies, which is why you've done that multiple times.

I've never been a founding engineer, but typically a direct report to founding engineers.

The people I worked with in your position were either like you (e.g. enjoyed programming but clearly got a big rush from the business and money side too) or they were genuinely just pure passionate programmers and miserable, as their role takes them away from that.

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