Being a professor at a research institution is not too far from what you describe. You need to persuade the rich man that you are worth funding (i.e. grants) but with that you can hire the smartest people you can find to take on something challenging, get paid a modest but decent salary, and have a small equity share in whatever you create.
Sometimes you can exit with much more than that. A family member who spent decades in research was able to get the IP rights to some of their work and is running a stealth mode startup to develop it further.
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I had a dream once that I was hired by a rich man.
I was given the freedom to hire the smartest people I could find and take on something challenging.
It paid only room and board for me and my family, plus a small equity share in whatever we created.
I would give anything for that dream to be a reality.
Please, if you’re reading this and you’re a millionaire, have some fun making someone else’s dreams come true?
Being a professor at a research institution is not too far from what you describe. You need to persuade the rich man that you are worth funding (i.e. grants) but with that you can hire the smartest people you can find to take on something challenging, get paid a modest but decent salary, and have a small equity share in whatever you create.
Sometimes you can exit with much more than that. A family member who spent decades in research was able to get the IP rights to some of their work and is running a stealth mode startup to develop it further.
Consider adding contact information to your hackernews profile, so that the millionaires can reach out to you privately.
Yeah, I imagine something like that so I could work on my lang/db engine (https://tablam.org).
But then, I wake up!. So moving a bit here and there and hope to find a small numbers of non-millonaires... hard, but possible?
What do you want to build?