In the tech world there's another force: everyone wants to do something glamorous and cool, and get rich doing it. But if anything, the glamorous and cool things are the hardest to strike gold in, if only for the fact that everyone else is also there digging for gold.
I know several people who have gotten extremely wealthy by going into their own software businesses, but none of them are doing "cool" things like video games or society-transforming websites. They are all doing much more mundane things like logistics and IT automation. But in these "boring" fields you're not competing with every 15 year-old high school kid in the universe.
I know several people who have gotten extremely wealthy by going into their own software businesses, but none of them are doing "cool" things like video games or society-transforming websites. They are all doing much more mundane things like logistics and IT automation. But in these "boring" fields you're not competing with every 15 year-old high school kid in the universe.