A lot of smart founders are being emotionally manipulated by the idea that if they are not building a category defining AI stuff or a trillion dollar industrial winner, they are somehow wasting their life or live in the permanent underclass
That is nonsense. There will be a massive class of businesses in this cycle built around hyper-personalization, hyper-financialization, serving niche demand with real spending power, yield anywhere from 5m to 100m gross without raising too much, managed by solo founders or tiny team
These are huge success too, these are founder's dream too