Merely getting publicity for a cause doesn't automatically translate into generating support for it. If you get publicity for a cause in an obnoxious… - Paul Graham

You still occasionally hear people saying that founders don't deserve to be rich, because their employees created all the value. But the falsity of this claim becomes increasingly obvious as automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer and fewer employees.

No investor has any right to push you to get acquired if you don't want to. The company is your project, not theirs.

If you try to solve a hard problem, the question is not whether you will use a powerful enough language, but whether you will (a) use a powerful language, (b) write a de facto interpreter for one, or (c) yourself become a human compiler for one.