I Spent 8 Years Selling Cloud at AWS and Alibaba. At 42, I Got Fired. Now I Run My Business with AI.

The doubts don't come at convenient times. They come during meditation, when my mind is supposed to be still. They come at 2 AM, when the apartment in Kuala Lumpur is quiet and my daughters are asleep. They come when I'm adjusting my Google Ads strategy for the third time in a single week, wondering if I even know what I'm doing. Is this the right path? Is this the right market? How long can the cash last? Six months ago, I was earning over $200K a year at Amazon Web Services. Today I make about $800 a month, working alone from my apartment in KL, running a cloud business powered by AI agents. I gave myself a deadline: September 30th. If I can't reach $7,000 a month by then, I go back to a regular job. Here's the thing nobody tells you about leaving big tech at 42 with two kids in international school: the most dangerous moment wasn't getting fired. It was the years before — when everything was going great and I did nothing to prepare. The Game I spent four years at Alibaba Cloud. If y