I'm a 27 year old nobody, but maybe I can give you a different perspective on things...

Whatever you read online often has this goal: extract time and money out of you.
So, whatever you expose yourself to online may skew the perspective on things for some purpose.

A job however, is a balancing act between time, skill and money. The purpose is to satisfy your hierarchy of needs. A company is the same but with more moving parts, but the reality is often different from what is being said.
So, in such an environment, I chose to never attach a deeper meaning to it - there is nothing special to it, unless I believe in it. I don't base my identity around any economic output, numbers or whatever my job title is at the moment. Running a startup would just mean more attachment to one thing.

You have been sold on an idea and emotion, that has little basis in reality. This dissonance ripples through your entire being and it's taking a toll on you. A lot of people failed before you and you never hear from them. This experience however is necessary to shift your perception towards what is real.

Having this detachment from what the consensus is, gives you the ability to see the things the way they are. You won't be stressed out when things go wrong, because your definition of wrong stops adapting. A startup ceases to be a vessel to be successful, because the very definition of successful stays within your intention and not what the world seems to define as successful.

By getting rid of this, you can focus on whats real and what matters. You move out of your head and start observing and acting in the real world.
You don't think of what should be - skewed by perception, but what could be - by letting your experience of life take over. This is the basis of creating things in my opinion.

You won't be paralyzed by the things that people tell you should be right (like ticking off a checklist to build an audience for an ROI), but rather what makes the most amount of sense from your POV.

I take things very slowly. As a developer I used to do very complicated things as fast as possible, but over time I embraced simplicity and balance over everything.

Some things are out of your control and it's important to see when your area of influence stops and when you are being sold an idea that plays with that perception of reality.

I managed to rest in myself and don't care "if I make it". My definition of "making it" is a roof over my head, food on the table, hygiene, transportation, physical activity, social interaction and time for myself.

My value system is true or false, not a range between 0 and infinite. If a car gets me to a place for example, it does what its expected to do, I don't believe in the bells and whistles I'm being presented. So my intention is to keep this car driving and not how this car compares or relates to anything. It is a tool and stays a tool. Success in my books starts with a true in it's foundation and not what the treadmill of 10, 50 or 100 in all it's facets sums up to, if you know what I mean. Realizing this gave me a different perspective on dreams. I saw how some dreams were never mine to begin with.

Whether I will achieve something the world tells me is successful now or in 10 years or if at all ultimately doesn't matter. I'm in for the experience and let nature unfold. I do what works out for me.

When you layer this sense of security up, you can start replacing layers by moving or switching jobs or trying to launch a company, because your life won't fall apart and you have this eternal rest and trust in yourself. No idea can consume you or act on different layers. You can still get a good nights rest, because things stay where they are.

I hope I could explain my perspective and give some insights...