Evan Williams, twitter CEO and one of my favorite entrepreneurs, writes a column tracing his entrepreneurial journey that spans blogger (acquired by google), odeo (shutdown) and twitter (popular micro blogging service that sprung out of odeo). It is a nice story told in an honest way as EV always does. Kudos to him. Here is a nice paragraph from the article.
My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee. I’ve been able to pay my father back, which is nice, and my mother doesn’t worry about me as much since I got married a year and a half ago.