So executing people year after year shows that the Singaporian system is working?? Doesn't it show the exact opposite since, you know, they have to continue to execute people? Wouldn't the success of their laws be validated if no one was executed showing that they had eradicated their drug problem?

You need a talk with your immediate manager.

What does your gut tell you?

moving to another team where i can still have an impact. the company is positioned well for success... i just have a hard time seeing myself in the same team...

Why would you work if you don't need the money?

What profit is that?

they charge brands $750k/day to advertise.

They go into the Home for Burnt-out COBOL programmers.

Maybe your lack of passion isn't about the job.

And because it's luck, it shouldn't even be thought about. In fact, the word 'luck' shouldn't be used. A more correct term would be 'probability'. There will be a certain number of people who will die by a falling brick or lightning each year. It could be you... probably not.

But it's something that brain cycles shouldn't be wasted on. We get out of bed each morning without knowing that a bad thing will happen that day. We should only think about the things that we can control.

"Call me old-fashioned, but running a business that makes money is not the worst thing in the world."

Are you kidding me? This is the whole point. Regardless of the funding, the goal is for a business to be self-sustaining. A company that relies on external funding is no company at all.

So let all the Zuckerberg-wannabes go after the funding and end-up with 1% stake with 0% authority... I'll settle for building the business, creating the processes and systems, attracting and supporting the customers, and keep my 100% thanks.

This is why Warren Buffet hates tech-stocks. Everyone thinks there's a different metric in tech. There isn't... self-generated cash is king.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Teddy Roosevelt

...now pick yourself up and try again.