Ask HN: Work in my invested startup or finish University?
I am 23 yo, live in Brazil, I&#x27;m the tech co-founder of a $5M valuation startup, and I do not know if I leave my CS Degree, girlfriend, and country to continue developing my business. Probably anyone in the world knowing just that would say to me to go on into this.<p>However, the story is not so simple. Resuming it, everything started with my partner. He is the CEO of the company and is working on that for 3 years now. I started to work with him as a freelancer, but at the same time, when he was applying for accelerators in SV I was the CTO. After a while, we were accepted by one of those and I went to California, owning 10% of the company.<p>There I developed the product during 6 months, finally releasing that 4 months ago. The release was great, despite that, coding was basically everything that I was doing at the time, and was pretty concerned about my education and missing my family and friends. So I decided to come back. Since then, the app is exactly the same, with the same bugs, but is the biggest app in the sector, with that my partner was able to raise $400k in a $5M valuation. And now he is asking me to go back resume my work.<p>If I go I will not finish my University possibly losing a Doctorate opportunity that I&#x27;m working on, my GF will hate me and I will be leaving everything I have, to pursue that dream. Everyone that I ask about it does not give any insightful feedback, so I humbly come here to know your opinions.<p>edit: Line breaks.