At a recent event, I shared with someone that I had founded three companies and had been a founding engineer twice before.

Their response: "So how many exits do you have?"

I replied, "It depends what you mean by exit."

First, seek to make meaning on your journey. Money is a part of it.

I think money is great. I love celebrating work when it reaches profitability, a major revenue milestone, investment fuels it's growth, and maybe I'll celebrate an IPO or acquisition of some kind one day.

Those kinds of days are far and few in between as a founder type. Most days are filled with rejection, mistakes, doubt, and problems galore.

The point is to be resilient, persistent, cogent, and curious, for the others, whose lives you seek to change.

Keep growing, keep learning, and you'll always exit with a meaningful experience.

Amore et furore.