"Founder", "cofounder" and "startup" were not in my vocabulary when I started building web apps as a teen. By the second year of college I was paying myself six figures a year with the profits from those apps. Design, development, marketing, bookkeeping, tax planning, legal work... I've always just assumed that if I'm willing to put in the time, I'll be able to handle it myself... so far that's been true.

There's little chance I'm going to grow to a hundred million users or be bought out by a Google while doing it all myself, and that's fine with me.