Maybe worth explicitly mentioning that the very fact that you have a trillion dollar plan could be negative to your chances of achieving even 1K/month.
The pie in the sky is tasty, and everyone wants to sink their teeth in it. Moon shots will naturally attract a certain type of individual, and the incentives will favour big gambles. Think of it as an internal land grab or gold rush.
I was in a place where we got the gold fever. People were getting insanely unrealistic ideas about the value of the idea. We applied to YC with it, and people questioned whether we were giving away too much (one them said "who are they" which is both funny and not funny at once). This is at the stage where we had 1 competent programmer, zero customers (but lots of connections), and a barely working prototype with fantasies that people wanted added. Funnily enough, nothing came of it, except my old colleagues still think I was trying to defraud them.
Slow and steady is less glamourous. I'm not surprised the anecdote is about a small family humbly trying to put something together. And you don't get fantasists thinking they need a piece of this trillion dollars.
The pie in the sky is tasty, and everyone wants to sink their teeth in it. Moon shots will naturally attract a certain type of individual, and the incentives will favour big gambles. Think of it as an internal land grab or gold rush.
I was in a place where we got the gold fever. People were getting insanely unrealistic ideas about the value of the idea. We applied to YC with it, and people questioned whether we were giving away too much (one them said "who are they" which is both funny and not funny at once). This is at the stage where we had 1 competent programmer, zero customers (but lots of connections), and a barely working prototype with fantasies that people wanted added. Funnily enough, nothing came of it, except my old colleagues still think I was trying to defraud them.
Slow and steady is less glamourous. I'm not surprised the anecdote is about a small family humbly trying to put something together. And you don't get fantasists thinking they need a piece of this trillion dollars.