Lessons from my first exit

great write up.

> $920k over four years

so this gives an average yearly salary of 230k. Very close to FAANG senior salary with much more risk, effort and (probably) worse life-work balance. OP quit from google in 2018 and ran some other business, and this is his biggest sale so far. I think it shows how hard it is to make better money outside FAANG even when extremely talented and lucky like OP. But it's probably more about lifestyle choices.

High risk activities are never going to be accurately represented by a single data point.

good point it's the 99 out of 100 cases that fail miserably that more accurately reflects expected value.