Interesting article, but I'd also claim the opposite. There's a cumulative emotional debt in NOT doing a startup/product.
If you go through life tinkering with projects, ideas and products without never really finishing something it gets demoralizing. You start feeling like a broken record talking about all the things you're going to do "some day". Not from a money point of view, but rather the joy of having created something special.
Sure you can stay in that cushy job and give up your dreams and delusions of grandeur, working away for someone elses vision, but you'll always have that nagging disappointment that you didn't follow through.
This might only apply for certain personalities, but for those I think it might be better to at least give it a shot rather than forever wonder what could have been.
If you go through life tinkering with projects, ideas and products without never really finishing something it gets demoralizing. You start feeling like a broken record talking about all the things you're going to do "some day". Not from a money point of view, but rather the joy of having created something special.
Sure you can stay in that cushy job and give up your dreams and delusions of grandeur, working away for someone elses vision, but you'll always have that nagging disappointment that you didn't follow through.
This might only apply for certain personalities, but for those I think it might be better to at least give it a shot rather than forever wonder what could have been.