Comment by paulryanrogers

11 hours ago

Each new bet will be expensive and depend less on technical merit than luck and having a backup so your family doesn't starve.

Agree.

FWIW I built browsers from 1999 for a long time. (But I was never a wunderkind, just somewhat tenaciously curious).

And I guess I am doing fine, but not amazingly rich or so.

Browsers were always a project closer to research/charity. I think Marc Andreessen said something similar - that he would never do that again. B2B is where you can make money.