Recently, I met lots of founders, including first-time or solo founders 👥.

Sometimes, I just want to talk with them to share some startup-related information or try to see if we could work together, whether we found a new company or as a partner 🤝.

One of the common questions they often ask me, although I have long and many experiences in the startup domain, is why I still want to work on the frontlines. I felt a bit weird about that because I never thought I would do something else, like joining a big company again or opening a nice cafe 💼☕.

People often say that startups are hard, and most likely, we will fail because statistics tell us that is true 📊. If you are smart enough, this might seem like a gambling game where you will definitely lose your money unless you are lucky enough to pass the death valley 🎲. But here’s a funny thing: today when I visited hashtag#switch2023 in Singapore, there were lots of government or public-related booths from countries like Korea, Australia, Austria, Japan, China, Brazil, Canada, Malaysia, and, of course, Singapore 🌍🏙️.

If this is a guaranteed death game, why do they want to support us? To waste their tax money? 💸🤔

It is indeed hard and difficult to create a successful company and compete with big corporations 🏢. But as we struggle to do so, we contribute to making our society a bit better than it was yesterday 🌟. I don’t know if I can create a unicorn 🦄, a survival-mode company, or if it will all be gone with the wind a few months later 🌬️.

However, working in my company makes Mondays a bit more exciting than when I worked in a big company 📅🚀.