After working in a couple of very large corporations I developed a certain level of dislike for politics and bureaucracy, I also like to know personally the people I work with and treat them as a family with whom I choose to spend most of my waking hours.
Over the years, the lifestyle became very important to me too; I am realizing that opportunities for me to ski the slopes, climb the mountains and dive the reefs will get scarcer and scarcer, therefore I am in need to build a company that can proclaim a “ski day”, or a “field trip” without worrying about investors, partners or hundreds of employee.
It is widely known that small teams can accomplish greater things than big, slow, and committee-driven companies.
It may all sound not ambitious, but my ambition is to build the smallest-possible company with a handful of friends that makes plenty of money without a need for big human overhead.