Heck you’re making less than a run of the mill enterprise dev is making in a second tier major city in Atlanta

And as a founder, you still need to do well to do better off than a BigTech employee and statistically you won’t come near.

And on top of that, you’re sounding like every startup that doesn’t realize that they can’t linearly project growth based on past performance. The first cohorts are almost always easier than later cohorts unless it is a platform with network effects.