good analysis and observation, but let me offer some different perspective,

From the viewpoint of those who lack skills and prefer fame, yeah, you’re on point. Doing solopreneurship is a lot of risks and not all rosy.

But you don’t have to be Ex Meta, Google, Harvard,… to be consider safe enough to dare to do solopreneurship. Like you said, you just need to consider if you can solve problem for a group of people, and do it. The biggest youtuber don’t come out of Harvard or Meta, they made their own story with their skills.

Some who abuse their ex-corporate names also made a pact with the devil to trade originality for prestige.

The pay taxes and hire people so you can be respected a million times more sound eloquent, but offer no value in reasons to do solopreneurship. People do it because being small offers agility, original, cheaper operating cost and faster test to product market fit. All the impressive corporation must start somewhere, and some starts from being solopreneurship or doing startup. But there is no path more honorable than the others.

Doing solo is bored, not as fun, and lonely as hell, SURE. But sometimes you must convince yourself to do it all before there’s profit and you can invite others in. It’s not about Fun, it’s just practical. Not everyone is staying in college and asking free help from friends with big promises. This fails to hold the longer you stay in the coporate world. People don’t follow you because they trust you, they will if they get paid, and if you can’t do that now, why not do it solo.

Not everyone has the luxury of a founding team or VC runway. Some of us bootstrap from zero, not out of ego, but necessity.

While solopreneurship gets romanticized, so does corporate prestige. Behind the polished LinkedIn titles lie invisible compromises—burnout, politics, loss of autonomy. Behind the big pride on people’s statuses, there’s huge pain and emptiness underneath, but they’re too afraid to share (some even lack awareness, feeling stuck and don’t know why). Some even do the opposite, sharing ROSY corporate future, ignoring the other truth, and making income on it solo.

I wrote this while working for corporate, and solo dreaming 😂 . Yes the post made me think but not changing my perspective.

"Solopreneurship is not a badge of pride, nor a path to escape. It’s a pragmatic option, chosen at the right time, by the right person, for the right reasons."

For those who are afraid, and debating: whatever you choose, you’re probably right. There’s no one Universal truth, and you gotta be the one responsible for your life and your dream.