Two quotes that describe very well why I am doing all this:
Peter Thiel
In his book Zero to One:
“The best entrepreneurs know this: Every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world.”
Naval Ravikant
in recent interview adds:
“You’re only going to [have a secret] if you have an intellectual obsession—if you are obsessed with a space for some time… and you figured something out. And because you figured something out, you can bet on that with deep conviction.”
In short I have the obsession and I have the secret and I am trying to build the next great company around it with or without external support.
With the current advances in Tech in general, you can have a company generating hundreds of millions of dollars with little or even no customers at all, hosted in the cloud and ran only by few trusted people working remotely from anywhere in the world.