If you have some time to prepare, put your spending on a single credit card. After a few years you’ll have a very good estimate of your expenditures.

I’m bootstrapping my company and my investments income/compounding basically paid me to do my own thing. Soul crushing work at tech company playing office bullshit (performative shit to get promotions and salary bumps) or just focus on doing something interesting I actually care about? I cared about the mission at my previous employers but day to day sucked the later stage the company went.

I’ll take funding if/when I need capital boost because it’s way more satisfying building from scratch. And my customers think it’s kinda cool and ofc AI helps me a lot for sure.

Imagine if I become the first person to do a solo billion dollar company lol. Me of all people, I would think that would be pretty hilarious.

That’s how I thought about it at least.