Joined a startup, recruited some people, learning about hardware.
How to get paid? Make an impact. Preferably a large one.
Will it be easy? No.
Will I bleed? Probably.
But the theory behind nonlinear returns a la Naval Ravikant is as such – bleed enough days row such that one day you win the whole prize and skin the deer.
I've butchered, so-to-speak, his metaphor, but you get the point. I'm willing to bleed.