The Entrepreneur Awakens: Pivoting from Tech to Ownership

So started with that whilst at the job. But you know, just the more of the side hustle or things that you really own, the more you do that, the more you feel empowered that you want to just, you know, jump on and do that entirely. Right. At the same time it's a golden handcuff to break off from the tech job because I still pay me really good salary.

I moved on from Microsoft at some point during the pandemic to Coinbase which is a crypto tech company, also public company, better salary, more demanding and actually makes it harder for me to build my side hustle because Microsoft actually had a pretty good life balance in relation to Coinbase back then. So I think the more demanding setting Coinbase make me more itchy to just get out and do my…

Okay, so a more demanding tech job is making you itchy. More itchy. Yep. Yeah, because I, yeah, it meant less flexibility on everything in life. Right.

So that. And then also yeah, I think just really that. So I've been kind of getting just less satisfied in my job and then, you know, that's when we had off a newborn at the time. So I think just juggling families kid and the job was really tough.

Right. So I think that just, you know, grew more and more job satisfaction and still good salary. So I would never be willing. Like it's always having that one more year syndrome.

I just want to be making more money, more in the bank before we just cut it and launch my entrepreneurship life. Right? Yeah. And then a layoff happened in 2023, January. It just when Coinbase was one of the companies starting the layout waves pretty early, I would say.

So that got me off the job. I was at the point of two options. One, I could really get back to finding another tech job because at the time there were still opportunities.

Now it's tougher. But back then if I hustle, I could really just find a comparable job versus taking that as an opportunity to launch my entrepreneur entrepreneurial lifestyle. Still pretty relatively young, you know, just hit 30 at the time. I felt like we had that time to try out something new.

And also thanks to my wife, you know, she still got a stable W2E job that provides some stability to the family that allowed me to just try out this now new lifestyle. I was just thinking, hey, just try for a few years. Even the thing doesn't work.

I can always like, the worst thing I could do is just going back to get a job. Right. So there's nothing much to lose there. A bunch of personal questions for you, Ken.

What? So obviously your wife was on board with this plan, but did it take convincing? Did she have the same vision as you or how did she react to this new vision, new professional vision of yours? Yeah, we are on board on the dream of having the ultimate flexibility.