Because I like making things and working with other people and don't really like meetings or traveling.

The biggest downward ticks to my personal net worth have been due to me relying on skills that I dont exercise often. Over time I have calibrated my judgement to mark the value of infrequently exercised skills to zero even though I might think I am a natural at them.

VCs are terrible at this. I can't tell you how many times in the past 20 years I've heard VCs say things like "you should move into [tangentially related area that we can't add value to that just had a big exit]"

For instance, when youtube got bought, VCs were all interested in investing in online video companies. At that point, though, Youtube had already been bought! They were like 5 years too late.

That might well be true, the point I was trying to make was that as an employee its dangerous to make decisions based on the belief that you are great at picking winning teams / companies. Sure VC's are bad it too, but theyre sensible enough to do it with other peoples money.