Is common for professionals to try and become entrepreneurs. There are two ways to entrepreneurship for professionals. Start small with limited resources — usually with savings or borrowed money — build proof of concept, dilute to private equity (PE) at regular intervals, and take it public someday.
But starting small can be hard on the ego if the professional has already been running large corporations. Alternatively, one can take a stake in an existing company, get a backing from either the markets or from PE, raise debt from the local markets and build value from there. I chose the latter route.
