This is answer written by Mike Arrington in 2011 after this article - http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/28/burnouts-vc-cons-and-slave-...
> "I've been burned badly by VCs. Treated unfairly. But my response was simply to stop doing what I was doing and start doing something else."
Isn't that exactly what Jamie is saying? Once what you're doing stops being fun, don't force yourself to keep slogging because you think keeping your nose to the grindstone will make you rich.