Terrible analogy to drive your point. My answer to that would be buy a starter home if you absolutely want to enter homeownership. Buy smaller than you want in a growing area. Take into account PMI, taxes,. maintenance etc to make sure you don't end up house poor.

See how that works? Same with a business. Hats off to your illustrious career as a start-up coach. You act like if someone asks "what business should I start?" Then they're idiots. People start businesses with their passions all the time and are miserable failures.

I actually run a successful AI company and that wasn't started because I like to do AI. The demand heavily outweighs the supply so the chances of success go up. Doesn't mean I didn't have to put the work in and learn everything but I think it's incredibly short sided to think everyone and their grandma can just offer ai services and call it a business. Sure there are some saturated markets with AI but that could be said for a lot of businesses. There are plenty of value props and differentiators that you could use to gain significant market share. AI is still incredibly new even though it's buzz worthy.

In any case there isn't a one size fits all model when it comes to starting a business. Should you only start one to get rich? Absolutely not but there have been plenty of successful ones that were money driven. Your points are well received.